The first messenger had not even completed his sentences and there comes a second messenger with more devastating news. Whether this fire of God
was caused by a lightning storm or perhaps by a volcanic eruption, it was large enough to take the lives of Job’s thousands of sheep and of his servants.
16 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”