Job 1:15 and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

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New International Version
and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

English Standard Version
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

New American Standard Bible
and the Sabeans attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!"

International Standard Version
when the Sabeans attacked, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. I alone escaped to tell you!"

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Darby Bible Translation
and they of Sheba fell upon them and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.

Young's Literal Translation
and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

Cross References

Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

Job 1:14
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Job 6:19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

Ezekiel 24:26
That he that escapes in that day shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?

Joel 3:8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD has spoken it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, another followed. His dearest and most valuable possessions were his ten children; news is brought him that they are killed. They were taken away when he had most need of them to comfort him under other losses. In God only have we a help present at all times.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15. Sabeans—not those of Arabia-Felix, but those of Arabia-Deserta, descending from Sheba, grandson of Abraham and Keturah (Ge 25:3). The Bedouin Arabs of the present day resemble, in marauding habits, these Sabeans (compare Ge 16:12).

I alone am escaped—cunningly contrived by Satan. One in each case escapes (Job 1:16, 17, 19), and brings the same kind of message. This was to overwhelm Job, and leave him no time to recover from the rapid succession of calamities—"misfortunes seldom come single."