While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, "The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants -- it has consumed them! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.

"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.