Job Loses His Property and Children

13 Now there was a day (A)when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house; 14 and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 when the [a]Sabeans [b]raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:15 Lit. Sheba; cf. Job 6:19
  2. Job 1:15 Lit. fell upon

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