²³ For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

⁶ The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands;^(A) but you must spare his life.”^(B)

⁴ “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has^(A) for his own life.

¹⁸ We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard.^{(A) 19} On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

¹² The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has^(A) is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”^(B)

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

¹⁷ As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!^(A) Don’t look back,^(B) and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!^(C) Flee to the mountains^(D) or you will be swept away!”

³⁸ When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.^(A)