1
The house in which Iyov’s children were gathered collapsed upon them.
2
The citizens then entered Iyov’s property and carried away what remained.
3
People without honor sat upon his couches and at his tables.
4
Iyov saw the plunder but remembered that the contest had been announced beforehand.
5
He compared himself to a shipmaster casting cargo into a stormy sea so that the vessel itself might reach harbor.
6
Earthly goods were cargo; faithfulness was the vessel he refused to abandon.