'Yes' in the Bible

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, “Skin for skin! Yes, a man will give all he has for his life.

“Behold, let that night be barren [and empty];Let no joyful voice enter it.

“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.

“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherlessAnd bargain away 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 it is true.But how can a mortal man be right 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 [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;Man breathes his last, and where is he?

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

“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.

“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,And the flame of his fire will not shine.

“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;

“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.”

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.

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

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

“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.

“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,