Job 1:3
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Cross References
Genesis 12:16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 24:35And LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 29:1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.
Genesis 34:23Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.
Numbers 31:32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Judges 6:5For they came up with their cattle and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number, and they came into the land to destroy it.
Matthew Henry on Job 1:2-4
Job to Song of Solomon These five books of scripture which are contained in this third volume and which I have here endeavoured, according to the measure of the gift given to me, to explain and improve, for the use of those who desire to read them, not only with understanding, but to their edification—though they have the same divine origin, design, and authority, as those that went before, yet, upon some accounts, are of a very different nature from them, and from the rest of the sacred writings, such variety of… Read the whole commentary →