And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,
And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.
That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
The Lord also was turned at the penance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?
Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,