Job 1:14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

◄ Job 1:14 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

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

New American Standard Bible
a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a messenger came to Job and reported: "While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

International Standard Version
a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,

Darby Bible Translation
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Young's Literal Translation
And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, 'The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

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

14. the asses feeding beside them—Hebrew, "she asses." A graphic picture of rural repose and peace; the more dreadful, therefore, by contrast is the sudden attack of the plundering Arabs.