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

And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

And a man findeth him, and lo, he is wandering in the field, and the man asketh him, saying, 'What seekest thou?'

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

And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

And a man found him wandering in a field, and he asked him what he was seeking.

Porro invenit eum vir, et ecce errabat in agro: interrogavit autem eum vir ille, dicendo, Quid quaeris?

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; but 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 Jonah. & Jarchi in loc.