CLV(i)
12 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying,
13 `Son of man, the land--when it sins against Me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out My hand against it, and broken for it the staff of bread, and sent into it famine, and cut off from it man and beast--"
14 and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job--they by their righteousness deliver their own soul--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh."
15 `If an evil beast I cause to pass through the land, and it has bereaved, and it has been a desolation, without any passing through because of the beast--"
16 these three men in its midst:I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh--neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation."
17 `Or--a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said:Sword, you do pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast--"
18 and these three men in its midst:I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh--they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered."
19 `Or--pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast--"
20 and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst:I live--an affirmation of the Lord Yahweh--neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul."
21 `For thus said the Lord Yahweh:Although My four sore judgments--sword, and famine, and wild beast, and pestilence--I have sent unto Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and beast,