Chagigah 5A

ומחריא תנורא, שקלתא ואנחתא אגבה דכרעה, קדחא ואיתרע מזלה, ואייתיתה.

and sweeping the oven. She took the fire and set it on her foot; she was scalded and her luck suffered, which gave me the opportunity, and I brought her.

אמר ליה רב ביבי בר אביי: אית לכו רשותא למיעבד הכי? אמר ליה, ולא כתיב: ״ויש נספה בלא משפט״? אמר ליה, והכתיב: ״דור הולך ודור בא״!

Rav Beivai bar Abaye said to the Angel of Death: Do you have the right to act in this manner, to take someone before his time? The Angel of Death said to him: And is it not written: “But there are those swept away without justice” (Proverbs 13:23)? Rav Beivai said to him: And isn’t it written: “One generation passes away, and another generation comes” (Ecclesiastes 1:4), which indicates that there is a predetermined amount of time for the life of every generation.

אמר: דרעינא להו אנא עד דמלו להו לדרא, והדר משלימנא ליה לדומה. אמר ליה: סוף סוף, שניה מאי עבדת? אמר: אי איכא צורבא מרבנן דמעביר במיליה ⁠— מוסיפנא להו ליה, והויא חלופיה.

He said to him: I shepherd them, not releasing them until the years of the generation are completed, and then I pass them on to the angel Duma who oversees the souls of the dead. Rav Beivai said to him: Ultimately, what do you do with his extra years, those taken away from this individual? The Angel of Death said to him: If there is a Torah scholar who disregards his personal matters, i.e., who overlooks the insults of those who wrong him, I add those years to him and he becomes the deceased’s replacement for that time.

רבי יוחנן כי מטי להאי קרא, בכי: ״ותסיתני בו לבלעו חנם״. עבד שרבו מסיתין לו וניסת, תקנה יש לו?! רבי יוחנן כי מטי להאי קרא, בכי: ״הן בקדשיו לא יאמין״, אי בקדושיו לא יאמין ⁠— במאן יאמין?

§ The Talmud returns to the previous topic. When R' Yoḥanan reached this verse, he cried, as God said to the Satan about Job: “Although you did incite Me against him, to destroy him without cause” (Job 2:3). R' Yoḥanan said: With regard to a slave whose master is one whom others incite to act harshly against the slave and the master is incited to do so, is there a remedy for the slave? Additionally, when R' Yoḥanan reached this verse, he cried: “Behold He puts no trust in His sacred ones” (Job 15:15), saying: If He does not place trust in His sacred ones, in whom does He place trust?