<p>1:7<i> And they had no child, because Elisabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years</i>- The record is deconstructing the common idea that the fruit of the womb would be given to the righteous, and withheld from the unrighteous. They walked blameless, as Job apparently did (Job 1:1), but still &quot;trouble came&quot;.</p>