Job 1:14

That a messenger came unto Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding beside them:

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

In Context

13And it happened on a certain day, when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother,

15When the Sabeans made an incursion, and took them away, and the young men they slew with the edge of the sword; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:17And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath also been a great slaughter among the people, and also thy two sons, Chophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God hath been taken.

Job 39:10Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?

Matthew Henry on Job 1:14-20

The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: 14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and… Read the whole commentary →

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