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Job 1:14

Job 1:14
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

And there came a messenger unto Job,.... Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits;…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

And there came a messenger unto Job - Hebrew מלאך mal'âk; the word usually rendered “angel,” appropriately rendered…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 1:13-19

We have here a particular account of Job's troubles.

I. Satan brought them upon him on the very day that his children…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Job 1:14-15

The first stroke, the loss of the oxen and she-asses, with the slaughter of the servants. Job's servants were probably…

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