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…

And there came a messenger unto Job - Hebrew מלאך mal'âk; the word usually rendered “angel,” appropriately rendered “messenger” here. The word properly means “one who is sent.” The oxen were plowing…

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,…

The first stroke, the loss of the oxen and she-asses, with the slaughter of the servants. Job's servants were probably armed, as is usual in the East, and offered resistance, for the Bedawin do not…