Job 1:14

Geneva Bible

There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
that there came a messenger to Iyov, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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

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

New Century Version
A messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were eating grass nearby,

New English Translation
and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

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

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

World English Bible
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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

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

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,

Complete Jewish Bible
a messenger came to him and said, "The oxen were plowing, with the donkeys grazing near them,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
A messenger came to Job and said, "We were plowing the fields with the oxen and the donkeys were eating grass nearby,

George Lamsa Translation
And there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding be side them;

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.

Lexham English Bible
And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding beside them.

Literal Translation
And a messenger came to Job and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses were feeding beside them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
there came a messaunger vnto Iob, and sayde: Whyle the oxen were a plowinge, and the Asses goinge in the pasture besyde them:

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

Bible in Basic English
And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
that there came a messenger unto Job, and said: 'The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

King James Version (1611)
And there came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

English Revised Version
that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
a messanger cam to Job, `whiche messanger seide, Oxis eriden, and femal assis `weren lesewid bisidis tho;

Update Bible Version
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them;

Webster's Bible Translation
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

New King James Version
and a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

New Living Translation
a messenger arrived at Job's home with this news: "Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,

New Life Bible
a man came to Job with news, saying, "The oxen were pulling the plow and the donkeys were eating beside them.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, a messenger, came in 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,

Revised Standard Version
and there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing 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,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Contextual Overview

¹³ And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁴ There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places, ¹⁵ And the Shabeans came violently, and tooke them: yea, they haue slayne the seruants with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁶ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayde, The fire of God is fallen from the heauen, & hath burnt vp the sheepe and the seruants, and deuoured them: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁷ And whiles he was yet speaking, another came, and sayd, The Caldeans set on three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue taken them, and haue slayne the seruantes with the edge of the sworde: but I onely am escaped alone to tell thee. ¹⁸ And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, ¹⁹ And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

messenger: 1 Samuel 4:17, 2 Samuel 15:13, Jeremiah 51:31

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:31 - ox Job 9:17 - multiplieth Job 39:10 - General Psalms 42:7 - Deep calleth Proverbs 23:5 - riches

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.

Genesis 1:3
Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.

Genesis 1:6
Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

Genesis 1:7
Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament. and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heauen. So the Euening and the morning were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:9
God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare. and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought foorth the bud of the herbe, that seedeth seede according to his kind, also the tree that beareth fruite, which hath his seede in it selfe according to his kinde: and God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there came a messenger unto Job,.... Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits; though this is a sense which is embraced not only by some Jewish Rabbins, but by several of the ancient Christian writers, as Sanctius on the place observes; and such they suppose the other messengers after mentioned were; but both this and they were servants of Job, who escaped the calamity that came upon the rest of their fellow servants:

and said, the oxen were ploughing: the five hundred yoke of oxen Job had, Job 1:3, which were all out in the fields, and employed in ploughing them; and to plough with such was usual in those times and countries, as it now is in some places; see 1 Kings 19:19

and the asses feeding beside them; beside the oxen, where they were ploughing, in pasture ground, adjoining to the arable land; and beside the servants that were ploughing with the oxen: "at their hands" b; as it may be literally rendered, just by them, under their eye and care; or "in their places" c; where they should be, and where they used to feed d; these were the five hundred asses, male and female, reckoned among Job's substance, Job 1:3, which were brought hither to feed, and some for the servants to ride on; this ploughed land being at some distance from Job's house; and others to carry the seed that was was to be sown here: now the situation and employment of these creatures are particularly mentioned, to show that they were in their proper places, and at their proper work; and that what befell them was not owing to the want of care of them, or to the indolence and negligence of the servants.

b על ידיהם "ad manus eorum", Mercerus. c "Suis locis", Vatablus, Schmidt; so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Bar Tzemach. d "More solito", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And there came a messenger unto Job - Hebrew מלאך mal'âk; the word usually rendered “angel,” appropriately rendered “messenger” here. The word properly means “one who is sent.”

The oxen were plowing - Hebrew “the cattle” (בקר bâqâr) including not merely “oxen,” but probably also “cows;” see the notes at Job 1:3.

And the asses - Hebrew אתון 'âthôn “she-asses.” The “sex” is here expressly mentioned and Dr. Good maintains that it should be in the translation. So it is in the Septuagint αἱ θήλειαι ὄνοι hai thēleiai onoi. So Jerome, “asinoe.” The reason why the sex is specified is, that female asses, on account of their milk, were much more valuable than males. On this account they were preferred also for traveling; see the notes at Job 1:3.

Beside them - Hebrew “By their hands,” that is, by their sides, for the Hebrew יד yâd is often used in this sense; compare the notes at Isaiah 33:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 1:14. The asses feeding beside them — אתנות athonoth, the she-asses, which appear to have been more domesticated, as of more worth and use than the others, both for their milk and their work.