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Job 1:14

Job chapter 1 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Context

v.13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

v.14This passage

v.15and 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 4:17

    And he that brought the tidings answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

  • Jeremiah 51:31

    One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

  • 2 Samuel 15:13

    And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.