Genesis 37:15

WEB

A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

KJV

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

Commentary

And a certain man found him,.... Many of the Jewish writers (l) say, this was an angel, the angel Gabriel, in the likeness of a man; but according to Aben Ezra, it was a traveller he met on the road; b ut it is more probable, as Schimidt observes, that it was some man at work in the field that came upon him and took notice of him: and, behold, he was wandering in the field; in some field near Shechem, perhaps the same his father Jacob had purchased, and where he expected to have found his brethren, and was looking out for them, going to and fro in search of them; which the labouring man in the field observed: and the man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? seeing him walking about, and first looking one way, and then another, concluded he was in search of something, either of some man or of some creature, a sheep or an ox that was lost; and therefore put this question to him, with a view to give him what direction and assistance he could. (l) Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. Targum Jon. & Jarchi in loc.