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Job Chapter 1 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Job 1:14

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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BBE Job 1:14

And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
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DARBY Job 1:14

And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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KJV Job 1:14

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
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WBT Job 1:14

And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
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WEB Job 1:14

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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YLT Job 1:14

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses (literally, the she-asses) feeding beside them (literally, at their hand). Note that, notwithstanding the festival, labour was still going on; there was no general holiday; the oxen were at work in the field, not perhaps all of them, but the greater number, for the ploughing-time is short in the Oriental countries, and the "earing" is all done at the same time. The bulk of Job's labourers were probably engaged in the business, and they had brought the asses with them, probably to keep them under their eye, lest thieves should carry them off, when the catastrophe related in the next verse occurred.

Ellicott's Commentary