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14 when someone rushed up to Job and said, “While your servants were plowing with your oxen, and your donkeys were nearby eating grass, 15 a gang of Sabeans[a] attacked and stole the oxen and donkeys! Your other servants were killed, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

16 That servant was still speaking, when a second one came running and said, “God sent down a fire that killed your sheep and your servants. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.15 Sabeans: Perhaps the people of Sheba in what is now southwest Arabia (see Isaiah 60.6).

14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing(A) nearby, 15 and the Sabeans(B) attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens(C) and burned up the sheep and the servants,(D) and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

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