“though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.”
Ezekiel 14:16 (WEB)
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14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh. 15“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals — 16though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. 17“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’ — 18though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.