While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

While it is in its budding -- uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.

While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.