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Literal Standard Version

Job 1:14

And a messenger has come to Job and says, "The oxen have been plowing, and the female donkeys feeding by their sides,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Plow;   Resignation;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Job;   Plowing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Ox, the;   Ploughing;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Ox;   Plough;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Shepherd;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Angel;   Messenger;   Ox;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Ass;   Cattle;   Job, the Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Satan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ox;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Plow;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agriculture;   Angels;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   Job;   Shepherd;  

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,
Geneva Bible (1587)
There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,
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

13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn. 14And a messenger has come to Job and says, "The oxen have been plowing, and the female donkeys feeding by their sides,15and Sheba falls, and takes them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you." 16While this [one] is speaking another has also come and says, "Fire of God has fallen from the heavens, and burns among the flock, and among the young men, and consumes them, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you." 17While this [one] is speaking another also has come and says, "Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you." 18While this [one] is speaking another has also come and says, "Your sons and your daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the firstborn. 19And behold, a great wind has come from over the wilderness, and strikes against the four corners of the house, and it falls on the young men, and they are dead, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you."

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 heavens and the earth,
Genesis 1:2
and the earth was formless and void, and darkness [was] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God [was] fluttering on the face of the waters,
Genesis 1:3
and God says, "Let light be"; and light is.
Genesis 1:4
And God sees that the light [is] good, and God separates between the light and the darkness,
Genesis 1:6
And God says, "Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters."
Genesis 1:7
And God makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 1:8
And God calls the expanse "Heavens"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God says, "Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land be seen": and it is so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brings forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God sees that [it is] good;
Genesis 1:14
And God says, "Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,

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.


 
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