Job 1:14

1:14 and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing ¹  and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Job 24:13

24:13 There are those ²  who rebel against the light;

they do not know its ways

and they do not stay on its paths.

[1:14]  ¹ tn The use of the verb “to be” with the participle gives emphasis to the continuing of the action in the past (GKC 360 §116.r).

[24:13]  ² tn Heb “They are among those who.”