12 The word of the Lord came to me:
13 Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—
14 even if these three were in it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they could only save themselves by their righteousness—oracle of the Lord God.
15 If I summoned wild beasts to prowl the land, depopulating it so that it became a wasteland which no one would cross because of the wild beasts,
16 and these three were in it, as I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear they could save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved, but the land would become a wasteland.
17 Or if I bring the sword upon this land, commanding the sword to pass through the land cutting off from it human being and beast alike,
18 and these three were in it, as I live—oracle of the Lord God—they could save neither sons nor daughters; they alone would be saved.