Job 1:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Common English Bible

¹⁴ A messenger came to Job and said: “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ a messenger came to Job, who said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Job 1:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:13

A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the Israelites have gone after Absalom.”

Job 1:13

One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother’s house,

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans fell on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 39:10

Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end:

1 Samuel 4:17

The messenger replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the troops; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”