and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;
And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”
He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
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.”
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?