¹⁴ even if these three men^(A)—Noah,^(B) Daniel,^(C) and Job^(D)—were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

¹⁵ “If I allow dangerous animals^(E) to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals, ¹⁶ even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.^(F)