Job 1:13-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 1:13-19

We have here a particular account of Job's troubles. I. Satan brought them upon him on the very day that his children began their course of feasting, at their eldest brother's house (Job 1:13), where, he having (we may suppose) the double portion, the entertainment was the richest and most plentiful. The whole family, no doubt, was in perfect repose, and all were easy and under no apprehension of the trouble, now when they revived this custom; and this time Satan chose, that the trouble,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:13

And there was a day ,.... Which according to the Targum was the first day of the week, but this is not certain, nor material; nor can it be said whether it was the day following that, Satan had leave to do what he would with Job's substance, nor how long this was after that; for though Satan was no doubt eager upon it, and in haste to do mischief; yet besides its requiring some time to get the Sabeans and Chaldeans to march out of their own country into Job's, so he would contrive and fix... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:14

And there came a messenger unto Job ,.... Not a messenger of Satan, as Jarchi, or one of his angels, or evil spirits; though this is a sense which is embraced not only by some Jewish Rabbins, but by several of the ancient Christian writers, as Sanctius on the place observes; and such they suppose the other messengers after mentioned were; but both this and they were servants of Job, who escaped the calamity that came upon the rest of their fellow servants: and said, the oxen were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:15

And the Sabeans fell upon them ,.... Or, "Sheba fell" F5 ותפל שבא "et delapsa est Seba", Montanus, Bolducius; "et irruit Sheba", Schmidt, Cocceius. ; that is, as Aben Ezra and Simeon Bar Tzemach supply it, an host of the Sabeans, or a company of them; these were not the descendants of that Sheba that sprung from Ham, Genesis 10:7 nor of him that came from Shem, Genesis 10:28 , but from Sheba, the son of Jokshan, a son of Abraham by Keturah, who with the rest of her sons were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:16

While he was yet speaking, there came also another ,.... Another messenger, one of Job's servants, from another part of his fields where his sheep were grazing, and was one of those that kept them; he came with another piece of bad news, even before the other had finished his whole account; and the same is observed of all the other messengers that follow: so Satan ordered it, that all Job's afflictions should come upon him at once, and the news of them be brought him as thick and as fast as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:13

There was a day - The first day of the week, says the Targum. It no doubt refers to one of those birthday festivals mentioned before. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:14

The asses feeding beside them - אתנות athonoth , the she-asses, which appear to have been more domesticated, as of more worth and use than the others, both for their milk and their work. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:15

And the Sabeans fell - The Vulgate alone understands this of a people. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic, understand it as implying a marauding party. The Chaldee says, "Lilith, queen of Zamargad, rushed suddenly upon them, and carried them away." The Sabeans mentioned here are supposed to have been the same with those who were the descendants of Abraham by Keturah, whose son Jokshan begat Sheba. The sons of Keturah were sent by Abraham into the east, Genesis 25:6 , and inhabited Arabia... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:16

The fire of God is fallen - Though the fire of God may mean a great, a tremendous fire, yet it is most natural to suppose lightning is meant; for as thunder was considered to be the voice of God, so lightning was the fire of God. And as the prince of the power of the air was permitted now to arm himself with this dreadful artillery of heaven, he might easily direct the zigzag lightning to every part of the fields where the sheep were feeding, and so destroy the whole in a moment. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 1:13-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 1:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 1:1-22

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