Job 1:14

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:31

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

2 Samuel 15:13

And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

1 Samuel 4:17

And he who brought the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. And thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

Job 1:13

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 39:10

Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?