¹⁵ “Or I might send wild animals into that land, leaving the land ·empty [desolate] and ·without children [bereaved]. Then no one would pass through it because of the ·animals [beasts]. ¹⁶ As surely as I live, says the Lord God, even if ·Noah, Daniel, and Job [^Lthese three men; v. 14] were in the land, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They could save only themselves, but that country would become ·empty [desolate].

¹⁷ “Or I might bring a ·war [^Lsword] against that ·country [land]. I might say, ‘Let a ·war be fought in [^Lsword pass through] that land,’ in this way ·destroying [cutting off] its people and its animals.