4
And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
5
And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
6
And Eliu looked, and, behold, at his head there was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and drank, and returned and lay down.
7
And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey far from thee.
8
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.