1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 15:13; Jeremiah 51:31
And there came a messenger unto Job - Hebrew מלאך mal'âk ; the word usually rendered “angel,” appropriately rendered “messenger” here. The wo...
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 interva...
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....
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), to emphasize the details in all these reports of the calamities.
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 athono...
Feeding beside them— Feeding near them. Houbigant. Feeding as usual. Heath and Schultens. Job 1:15 . The Sabeans fell upon them ] Hebrew, שׁב...
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: The donkeys feeding beside them - He...
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...
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 G...
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 ami...
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 for...
(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 mess...
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 i...
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 s...
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 live...
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,...
The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. B. C. 1520....
i.e. Beside the oxen, therefore both were taken away together.
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...
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 . W...
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 kin...
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, an...
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 tha...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumsta...
Job's Great Affliction
and there came a messenger unto Job and said, The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them, grazing in the meadows nearby,
Messenger, &c. — One messenger immediately followed another; Satan so ordering by God's permission, that there might seem to be more than ordin...
14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: