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While he was still speaking, there also came another, 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."
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The Strategy of Overwhelm
Commentators highlight the phrase "While he was yet speaking" to show Satan's strategy: overwhelm Job with rapid-fire calamities. This was intended to give Job no time to recover, pray, or rally his faith. The goal was to provoke a hasty, sinful reaction by making the suffering feel relentless and inescapable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
While he was yet speaking - All this indicates the rapidity of the movement of Satan, and his desire to overwhelm Job with the sudd…
19th Century
Anglican
The fire of God. —Whether or not we understand this phrase as in the margin, it can hardly mean anything else than lightning. (Com…
Baptist
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the serv…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
While he was yet speaking, there came also another Another messenger, one of Job's servants, from another part of hi…
Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while on…
13th Century
Catholic
After considering the cause of the blessed Job’s adversity, the text consequently shows how that adversity came upon him. Because Satan produced al…
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