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 heathen writers observe. They were the descendants of Abraham by Keturah, whose son Jokshan begat Sheba, their progenitor. Indeed, the Hebrew here is, Sheba fell upon them; and took them away The whole five hundred yoke of oxen, and the five hundred asses which he had. Yea, they have slain the servants, &c. Who faithfully and bravely did their best to defend them. And I only am escaped to tell thee Him Satan spared no less maliciously than he destroyed the rest, that Job might have speedy and certain intelligence of his calamity.
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Job 1:14-15
14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
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.