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Job 1:14
and there came a messenger unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them, grazing in the meadows nearby,
and there came a messenger unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them, grazing in the meadows nearby,
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...
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 PLOWIN...
II. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND SATAN AND THE RESULTS CHAPTER 1:6-22 _ 1. A scene in heaven, Jehovah's challenge and Satan's, accusation (Job 1:6)_ 2. Satan's power manifested (Job 1:13) 3...
THE FIRST STROKE.The asses were feeding, a touch reflecting an absolute peace. The Sabeans are the Bedouin, Saba (1 Kings 10*) being S. Arabia. Job 1:16. The second stroke. The fire of God is the lig...
JOB'S MISFORTUNE. The activity of the Satan is depicted, though he himself remains invisible. Between Job 1:12 and Job 1:13 there is an interval, an ominous silence like that which precedes the storm....
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), to emphasize the details in all these reports of the calamities....
Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken Between Job 1:12 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn aside t...
The first stroke, the loss of the oxen and she-asses, with the slaughter of the servants. Job's servants were probably armed, as is usual in the East, and offered resistance, for the Bedawin do not us...
FEEDING BESIDE THEM— _Feeding near them._ Houbigant. _Feeding as usual._ Heath and Schultens. _Job 1:15. The Sabeans fell upon them_] Hebrew, שׁבא. _Sheba fell upon them;_ Sheba was the general name o...
4. The first trialloss of possessions and loved ones (Job 1:13-19) TEXT 1:13-19 (13) And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house...
_AND THERE CAME A MESSENGER UNTO JOB, AND SAID, THE OXEN WERE PLOWING, AND THE ASSES FEEDING BESIDE THEM:_ The donkeys feeding beside them - Hebrew, she-asses. A graphic picture of rural repose and p...
THE PROLOGUE Job 1:2, which form the Prologue to the book, describe (_a_) the prosperity and piety of Job; (_b_) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and (_c_) his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB The Book of...
The servants in verses 14-17 announced that Job had lost all his possessions. Job’s sheep died in a terrible fire. Enemies stole Job’s camels. Other enemies took Job’s oxen (farm animals) and his donk...
וּ מַלְאָ֛ךְ בָּ֥א אֶל ־אִיֹּ֖וב וַ יֹּאמַ֑ר
IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the development of...
STRIPPED OF EVERY POSSESSION Job 1:13 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life gay and b...
In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in th...
(13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, an...
A Heavenly Meeting About a Good Man I. INTRODUCTION A. Job is the first of the poetical books which consist of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. 1. But don't e...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...
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 se...
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: Ver. 14. _And there came a messenger_] A sad relater, not a devil in the shape of a man, as th...
_And the asses feeding beside them_ That is, beside the oxen. _And the Sabeans fell upon them_ A people of Arabia, who led a wandering life, and lived by robbery and plunder, as Strabo and other heath...
JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken of...
13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, anoth...
i.e. Beside the oxen, therefore both were taken away together....
Job 1:14 messenger H4397 came H935 (H8804) Job H347 said H559 (H8799) oxen H1241 plowing H2790 ...
Job 1:6. _Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them._ Angels and all kinds of intelligent spirits had, as it were, a special,...
Job 1:1. _There was a man in the land of Uz,_ Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1. _Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright...
CONTENTS: Job's family and their piety. Satan's challenge and the calamities that befell Job. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Job. CONCLUSION: God allows Satan power over His saints but it is always limited...
Job 1:1. _The land of Uz._ Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the ha...
_So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord _ THE FOE OF FOES I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 1:13 Job’s troubles come from multiple directions in rapid succession. The SABEANS come from the south (v. Job 1:15), the FIRE fro
_FOURTH PART OF INTRODUCTION.—INFLICTION OF THE TRIAL_ I. Occasion of the trial (Job 1:13). “There was a day.” Satan watches for the time best suited for his designs. The occasion chosen that the tri...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his characte...
Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1. As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divi...
1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 15:13; Jeremiah 51:31...
Messenger, &c. — One messenger immediately followed another; Satan so ordering by God's permission, that there might seem to be more than ordinary displeasure of God against him in his troubles, and t...