Then the Sabeans {attacked}, and they took them, and they slew the servants {by the edge of the sword}. But I escaped, [even] I alone, to tell you."

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill [the] simple.

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.

Returning [the] products of [his] toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy},

It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

Its back [has] scales of shields; it is shut up closely [as with] a seal.