John Trapp on Job 1:15

Verſe 15. And the Sabeans fell upon them] i.e.Sabai apud poetas molles vocantur: but Satan ſet them a work. B[illegible: 1 letter]eerw. Enquir 135. The Arabians a theeviſh people that lived by rapine and robbery. They are at this day called Saracens of Sarac to rob; for they keep up their old trade, and are not all out ſo good as thoſe Circaſſians, a [illegible: 1 letter]ind of mongrell-Chriſtians, who are ſaid to divide their life betwixt ſinne and devotion; dedicating their youth to rapine, and their old age to repentance.

Yea, they have ſlain the ſervants] Heb. The young men; for [non-Latin text not transcribed] &c. [illegible: 1 span]. It was happy howſoever, that they were taken away, when in their lawful [illegible: 1 letter]alling, and about their honeſt employments: Eliah choſe to be taken in ſuch a poſture: for he knew the very time: and yet when the charriots of heaven came to fetch him up, he was going and talking to his Scholar Eliſha. The buſie attendance on our holy vocation, is no leſſe pleaſing to God, or ſafe for us to die upon, then an immediate devotion. Happy is that ſervant, whom the Maſter when he cometh, ſhall find ſo doing.

And I only am eſcaped alone to tell thee] For no other cauſe eſcaped this one, this ſingle one, but to adde to Jobs affliction. There was no mercy in ſuch a ſparing: It was, that Job might have the ill newes brought him ſuddenly and certainly. That old man ſlayer had ſo contrived it for the greater miſchief.