While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “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.”

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three 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.”

While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?

While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.

Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,