14. Even if those three men, Noah, Danel, and Job, were living there, their goodness would save only their own lives.” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.
15. “Or I might send wild animals to kill the people, making the land so dangerous that no one could travel through it,
16. and even if those three men lived there — as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God — they would not be able to save even their own children. They would save only their own lives, and the land would become a wilderness.
17. “Or I might bring war on that country and send destructive weapons to wipe out people and animals alike,