Job 1:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 1:14 - Albert 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 w...
Job 1:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 1:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), to emphasize the details in all these reports of the calamities.
Job 1:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: The asses feeding beside them - אתנות athonoth, the she-asses, which appear to have been more...
Job 1:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 n...
Job 1:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Job 1:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 1:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13-22 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 develo...
Job 1:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Stripped of Every Possession Job 1:13-22 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 g...
Job 1:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Job 1:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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, a...
Job 1:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Job 1:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Job 1:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 heat...
Job 1:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 1:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. B. C. 1520. 13 And there w...
Job 1:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Beside the oxen, therefore both were taken away together.
Job 1:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 t...
Job 1:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 up...
Job 1:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Job 1:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 s...
Job 1:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 ch...
Job 1:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Great Affliction
Job 1:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 4:17 ; 2 Samuel 15:13 ; Jeremiah 51:31
Job 1:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Job 1:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 1:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 1:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 1:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 1:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 1:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 1:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 1:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 1:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 1:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 1:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 1:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 1:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 1:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 1:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 1:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 1:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 1:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 1:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 1:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 1:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 1:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 1:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 1:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 1:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes