Job 1:15-19, 29:5-25 | ESV | STEP | and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword , and I alone have escaped to tell you.

Job 1:15-19

15 and ^athe Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants ^{▼▼Hebrew the young men; also verses 16, 17} with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, ^c“The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 17 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, ^d“The Chaldeans formed ^ethree groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, ^f“Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across ^gthe wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 29:5-25

5 when the Almighty was yet with me,
when my ^hchildren were all around me,
6 when my steps were ⁱwashed with ^jbutter,
and ^kthe rock poured out for me streams of ^loil!
7 When I went out to ^mthe gate of the city,
when I prepared my seat in the square,
8 the young men saw me and withdrew,
and the aged rose and stood;
9 the princes refrained from talking
and ⁿlaid their hand on their mouth;
10 the voice of the nobles was hushed,
and their ^otongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
and when the eye saw, it approved,
12 because I ^pdelivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
13 ^qThe blessing of him who was ^rabout to perish came upon me,
and I caused ^sthe widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I ^tput on righteousness, and it clothed me;
my justice was like a robe and ^ua turban.
15 I was ^veyes to the blind
and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy,
and I searched out ^wthe cause of him whom I did not know.
17 I ^xbroke ^ythe fangs of the unrighteous
and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
18 ^zThen I thought, ‘I shall die in my ^aanest,
and I shall multiply my days as ^abthe sand,
19 my ^acroots spread out to ^adthe waters,
with the dew all night on my ^aebranches,
20 my glory fresh with me,
and my ^afbow ever ^agnew in my hand.’
21 “Men listened to me and waited
and kept silence for my counsel.
22 After I spoke they did not speak again,
and my word ^ahdropped upon them.
23 They waited for me as for the rain,
and they ^aiopened their mouths as for the ^ajspring rain.
24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
and ^akthe light of my ^alface they did not cast down.
25 I chose their way and sat as chief,
and I lived like ^ama king among his troops,
like one who comforts mourners.