Job 1:16
“It is remarkable how the news from the second [messenger] increases Job's pain. "Fire fell from heaven," he says, "and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them." Even if Job thoroughly knew the teachings of the truth and understood that afflictions did not occur without God's permission, the incident st…”
Source: Septuagint
16While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burned up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds likewise; And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.
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14And, behold, there came a messenger to Job, and said to him, The yokes of oxen were plowing, And the she-asses were feeding near them;
15And the spoilers came and took them for a prey, And slew the servants with the sword; And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.
— Job 1:16 —
17While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, And surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, And slew the servants with the sword; And I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.
18While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother,