The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
JOB 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest
brother's house:
JOB 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and
smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and
they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
JOB 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and
fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
JOB 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;
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