Narrative order · Job · Patriarchs
Job loses his possessions and children
In rapid succession Job learned that raiders, fire, and a great wind had taken his livestock, servants, sons, and daughters. Job mourned and worshiped, blessing the name of the LORD without charging God with wrongdoing (Job 1:13-22).
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📖 Job 1:13–15
13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Sources: Scripture — Job 1:13-22
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