9. Then the Adversary answered the Lord, saying, “Has Job feared God for nothing?
10. Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11. But stretch out Your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.”
12. The Lord said to the Adversary, “Look, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against his person.”So the Adversary departed from the presence of the Lord.
13. So a day came when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
14. and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
15. and the Sabeans attacked them, and took them away, and they killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell you.”
16. While he was still speaking, another came 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.”