and perhaps they were in three separate companies and places, 1000 in each, and therefore the Chaldeans divided themselves into three bands; or "appointed three heads" , as it may be rendered; there were three bodies of them under so many leaders and commanders, and this was done, that they might the more easily take them; and they "diffused or spread themselves" , as the word signifies, upon or about the camels; they surrounded them on all sides, or otherwise, these being swift creatures, would have run away from them: these Chaldeans or Chasdim were the descendants of Chesed, a son of Nahor, who was brother to Abraham, Ge 22:20, who settled in the east country, not far from Job: and this agrees with the character that Xenophon gives of the Chaldeans, at least some of them, in later times; that they lived upon robbing and plundering others, having no knowledge of agriculture, but got their bread by force of arms; and such as these Satan could easily instigate to come and carry off Job's camels:yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee; See Gill on "Job 1:15".
Myvar hvlv wmv "posuerunt tria capita", Montanus, Bolducius, Schmidt; "duces", Pagninus, Vatablus. wjvpyw "et diffuderunt se", Mercerus, Schmidt "effuderunt se", Cocceius. Cyropaedia, l. 3. c.