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14 A messenger came to Job and said, “We were plowing the fields with the oxen and the donkeys were eating grass nearby, 15 when some Sabeans[a] attacked us and took your animals! They killed the other servants. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!”

16 That messenger was still speaking when another one came in and said, “A bolt of lightning[b] struck your sheep and servants and burned them up. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:15 Sabeans A group of people from the Arabian Desert, probably south of Uz.
  2. Job 1:16 A bolt of lightning Or “God’s fire fell from the sky.”

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