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Job 1:14

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

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Job 1:14 in other translations

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Job 1:14 · World English Bible

Job 1:14 in context

  1. 12And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.
  2. 13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
  3. 14that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
  4. 15and 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.
  5. 16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.