12. “All right, you may test him,” the lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left the lord’s presence.
13. One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting at the oldest brother’s house,
14. a messenger arrived at Job’s home with this news: “Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,
15. when the Sabeans raided us. They stole all the animals and killed all the farmhands. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”