Job 1:14
Good News Translation
a messenger came running to Job. "We were plowing the fields with the oxen," he said, "and the donkeys were in a nearby pasture.

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

Contemporary English Version
when someone rushed up to Job and said, "While your servants were plowing with your oxen, and your donkeys were nearby eating grass,

New American Bible
a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing beside them,

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

messenger.

1 Samuel 4:17 And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.

2 Samuel 15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with their whole heart followeth Absalom.

Jeremiah 51:31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

Context
Job Loses His Children and Possessions
13Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother, 14There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,15And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.…
Cross References
Job 1:13
Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother,

Job 1:15
And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 1:13
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