Job 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And the Sabeans swooped down upon them and took away [the animals]. Indeed, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ when the Sabeans took them and killed the young men with swords. I alone escaped to tell you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ and the Sabeans rushed in and carried away everything, and they struck the servants with the sword; and I alone evaded them to tell you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 1:15 Cross References

Genesis 10:28

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

Genesis 10:7

The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 25:3

Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

Job 1:14

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

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 6:19

The caravans of Tema look; the travelers of Sheba hope.

Psalm 72:10

May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts.

Isaiah 45:14

Thus says the Lord: The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, tall of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying, “God is with you alone, and there is no other; there is no god besides him.”

Ezekiel 23:42

The sound of a raucous multitude was around her, with many of the rabble brought in drunken from the wilderness, and they put bracelets on the arms of the women and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

Ezekiel 24:26

on that day, one who has escaped will come to you to report to you the news.

Joel 3:8

I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.