Or if I send a wild beasts through the land and it depopulates it and it becomes a desolation so that no one passes through because of the beasts, then even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord, they would deliver neither son nor daughter—they alone would be delivered. This verse employs a different judgment—wild beasts rather than famine—but maintains the same theological principle: righteous individuals cannot save their families or others through their righteousness alone. The inability to save even one's own children emphasizes the absolute individuation of judgment based on personal faithfulness.

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