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Job 1:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” "

Job 1:16

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14 that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

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"After the earthquake a fire passed; but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice."

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Job 1:1

"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil."

Job 1:2

"There were born to him seven sons and three daughters."

Job 1:3

"His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east."

Job 1:4

"His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them."

Job 1:5

"It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually."

Job 1:6

"Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them."

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