Job 1:13-19

FOUR MESSENGERS OF MISFORTUNE, Job 1:13-19.

“It is not accidental,” says Hengstenberg, “that there are just four catastrophes divided into two pairs, and corresponding to the fourfold particularization of the righteousness of Job. In them may be seen a sort of irony of destiny touching his and all human righteousness.” The Germans have also remarked upon the peculiarity that the first and third of the calamities are ascribed to human, the second and fourth to celestial agencies. Evans. The Germans call calamities hiobs-posten “Job’s posts,” or messengers a proverbial expression similar to our own “Job’s comforters.”