Satan Allowed to Test Job

13 Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the [a]donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and [b]the (A)Sabeans [c]attacked and took them. They also [d]slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and [e]I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:14 Lit female donkeys
  2. Job 1:15 Lit Sheba
  3. Job 1:15 Lit fell upon
  4. Job 1:15 Lit smote
  5. Job 1:15 Lit only I alone, and so also vv 16, 17, 19