Job 1:14

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^1:14and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing⁶² and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

62 The use of the verb “to be” with the participle gives emphasis to the continuing of the action in the past ( §116.r).

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

a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

a messenger came to Job and reported, “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

a messenger arrived at Job’s home with this news: “Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,

And a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding beside them.

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

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