# Job 1:13-22 (Satan Takes Job’s Property and Children)

Summary: Satan steals or kills all of Job's livestock, murders his sons and daughters, and many if not most of his servants. To execute these deeds, and in such a fast and furious manner, the Satan employed two different groups of people (the Sabeans and Chaldeans), along with extreme natural (weather) disasters of wind and fire. On that day, these destructive events are so well orchestrated that the arriving servant (witness) for each massacre interrupted each other once reaching Job, to relay their catastrophic news.

Questions to consider in this passage:

• How much time elapsed between verses 6-12 and 13-22?
• Was Satan preparing these attacks prior to the "assembly in the sky" in verses 6-12?
  • How often might Satan schemes have been frustrated due to Job's "hedge of protection"?
  • What was likely happening during Satan's own account of his "moving to and fro" on the earth?
    • Tourist or instigator?
• Why were the "sons of god" (elohim) present for this dialog between God and Satan?
  • Was this more of a "side conversation", or the main reason for their attendance?
  • What did they think Job would do in response to God removing his "hedge of protection" (the 'test')?
• How do we discern between a 'Trial' (Test) and a 'Judgement' from God?

"Trials from God" Supporting verses:

• Hebrews 12:1-11
• Romans 5:1-5
• James 1:2-4

"Cloud of Witnesses" references:

• Who Are the Great Cloud of Witnesses? (Michael Heiser)
• Referenced Podcast from Dr. Heiser
• Hebrews 12:22-23

"Wind and Fire" references:

• Psalms 104:4
• Hebrews 1:7 Quoting Ps. 104:4 to contrast 'angels' to the superiority of the 'Son' (Jesus)
• Acts 2:1-4

Methods of Satan's destructive acts:

• Sabeans take the oxen and donkeys
  • Sabeans' are members of a people of South Arabia
  • Principal deity was Almaqah, a guardian of irrigation often symbolized by a bull’s head or a vine motif.
  • Oxen-powered Water Wheel Irrigation System
• Fire consumes the sheep
  • Sheep symbolize believers
    • Psalm 23 - The Lord is my shepherd...
    • Jeremiah 23:1-8 - "Woe to the shepherds who destroy..."
    • Ezekiel 34:11-16 - "Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out..."
    • Luke 15:4-7 - What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep

Other Considerations:

• Did Job pass the test?
• Is there any significance that 3 times in Job chapter 1 "eating and drinking wine" (twice using the emphasis [in Hebrew] continual, without interruption ) is mentioned with Job's children?

# Verse 13a

Now there was a day

• Verse '13' begins exactly as does verse '6'

when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

• Parallel idea to the events expressed in Job 1:4. Of note, Job would always ...