“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 servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
Fire from heaven consuming the sheep and servants introduces divine agency into the catalogue of disasters, complicating the human causality of the Sabean raid with apparent supernatural judgment. The messenger's attribution of the fire to heaven suggests either a lightning strike or, more ominously, divine punishment. This second loss, with its theological coloring, begins to suggest that Job's reversals are not merely human injustice but cosmic crisis.
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