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

¹⁷ He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

¹³ There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

³¹ One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: