The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

If a wise person goes to court with a foolish person, there is no peace whether he is angry or laughs.

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil and chasing the wind.

though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man –

These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

While I was watching in my mind’s visions on my bed, a holy sentinel came down from heaven.

“My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.

These were the sons of Esau’s son Reuel: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him’ –