Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."

"All right," the LORD said to Satan, "everything he has is in your power, but you must not hurt Job himself." So Satan left.

Satan replied, "A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power, but you are not to kill him."

The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.

The violent storm continued, so on the next day they began to throw some of the ship's cargo overboard,

and on the following day they threw part of the ship's equipment overboard.

After everyone had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing all the wheat into the sea.