Job 1:14

And a messenger has come to Job and says, “The oxen have been plowing, and the female donkeys feeding by their sides,

Literal Standard Version

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 the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.

15and Sheba falls, and takes them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 4:17And he who is bearing tidings answers and says, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter has been among the people, and also your two sons have died—Hophni and Phinehas—and the Ark of God has been captured.”

Job 39:10Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?

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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