Job 1:14

In 11 translations

BSB

a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

KJV

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

WEB

that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

ASV

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

LSV

And a messenger has come to Job and says, “The oxen have been plowing, and the female donkeys feeding by their sides,

YLT

And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, 'The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,

DBY

And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;

DRC

There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,

GNV

There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

JPS

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

LXXE

And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding near them;

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WLC

וּמַלְאָ֛ךְ בָּ֥א אֶל־אִיּ֖וֹב וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַבָּקָר֙ הָי֣וּ חֹֽרְשׁ֔וֹת וְהָאֲתֹנ֖וֹת רֹע֥וֹת עַל־יְדֵיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελος ἦλθε πρὸς Ἰὼβ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, τὰ ζεύγη τῶν βοῶν ἠροτρία, καὶ αἱ θήλειαι ὄνοι ἐβόσκοντο ἐχόμεναι αὐτῶν,

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• 1 Samuel 4:17The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
• Jeremiah 51:31One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
• 2 Samuel 15:13Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”

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