'Yes' in the Bible

and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Yes, may that night be barren;may no joyful shout be heard in it.

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

“Then I would still have consolation,And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

“Turn away [from your suspicion], let there be no injustice;Turn away, my righteousness and vindication is still in it.

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,but how can a person be justified before God?

Who does great things, [beyond understanding,] unfathomable,Yes, marvelous and wondrous things without number.

Then, indeed, you could lift up your face [to Him] without moral defect,And you would be firmly established and secure and not fear.

“Then you would trust [with confidence], because there is hope;You would look around you and rest securely.

“You would lie down with no one to frighten you,And many would entreat and seek your favor.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

Yes, this will result in my deliverance,for no godless person can appear before Him.

“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;Man breathes his last, and where is he?

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;He has also set me up as His target.

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;the flame of his fire does not glow.

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

“The arrow is drawn forth and it comes out of his back [after passing through his body];Yes, the glittering point comes out of his gall.Terrors march in upon him;

"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

“He will even rescue the one [for whom you intercede] who is not innocent;And he will be rescued through the cleanness of your hands.”

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

Then He saw wisdom and declared it;He established it and searched it out.

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?Vigor had perished from them.

{A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land.

“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting;Yes, I am a byword and a laughingstock to them.

Yes, I know that You will lead me to death—the place appointed for all who live.

Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

“I even paid close attention to [what] you [said],Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him],Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

I too will answer;yes, I will tell what I know.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

“Then his soul draws near to the pit [of destruction],And his life to those who bring death (the destroyers).

[Elihu comments,] “Behold, God does all these things twice, yes, three times, with a man,

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one;He understands all things.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Yes, [it is] wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let [the] ransom's greatness turn you aside.

"Yes, God is great -- beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

"Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it?

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

Yes, [the] mountains yield produce for it, and all {wild animals} play there.

Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as [the] lower millstone.