There came also another Bringing tidings still more afflictive than either of the two former; and said, The Chaldeans Who also lived upon spoil, as Xenophon and others observe; made out three bands
That they might come upon their prey several ways, and that nothing might be able to escape them; and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away The three thousand camels which Job had; (see Job 1:3;) a prodigious loss indeed! slaying, at the same time, the servants that tended them. If the fire of God, and the sword of the plunderers, which fell upon Job's honest servants that were in the way of their duty, had fallen upon the Sabean robbers that were doing mischief, God's judgments therein would have been like the great mountains, evident and conspicuous; but when the way of the wicked prospers, and they carry off their booty, while just and good men are suddenly cut off, God's righteousness is like the great deep, the bottom of which we cannot find, Psalms 36:6.