Job 1:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: ”

• Job 1:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Eating and drinking wine - ; the notes at Job 1:4 , Job 1:13 .

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• Job 1:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy (z) sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (z) This last plague declares that whe...

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• Job 1:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Misfortune. The activity of the Satan is depicted, though he himself remains invisible. Between Job 1:12 and Job 1:13 there is an interval, an ominous silence like that which precedes the...

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• Job 1:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

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• Job 1:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Job 1:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prologue Job 1:2 , which form the Prologue to the book, describe ( a ) the prosperity and piety of Job; ( b ) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and ( c...

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• Job 1:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thy sons and thy daughters. — See Job 1:13 . The marvellous accumulation of disasters points us to the conclusion that it was the distinct work of Satan, according to the permission given him ( Jo...

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• Job 1:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13-22 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the develo...

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• Job 1:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Stripped of Every Possession Job 1:13-22 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life g...

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• Job 1:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in...

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• Job 1:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, a...

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• Job 1:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  While he was yet speaking, there came another ,.... A servant of one of Job's sons, who was in waiting at the feast before mentioned, and here again repeated: and said, thy sons and thy daughters...

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• Job 1:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: Ver. 18. While he was yet speaking ] See...

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• Job 1:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  While he was yet speaking there came also another Bringing tidings the most distressing of all. One messenger immediately followed another in this manner, through the contrivance of Satan, by God's...

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• Job 1:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken...

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• Job 1:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Calamities Brought on Job; The Death of Job's Children. B. C. 1520.       13 And there w...

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• Job 1:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Feasting after their manner, and, as Job generally feared and suspected, sinning against God, Job 1:5 , which was a dreadful aggravation of the judgment.

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• Job 1:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  FOURTH PART OF INTRODUCTION.—INFLICTION OF THE TRIAL I. Occasion of the trial ( Job 1:13 ). “There was a day.” Satan watches for the time best suited for his designs. The occasion chosen that t...

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• Job 1:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job 1:1 . There was a man in the land of Uz, Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1 . Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and up...

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• Job 1:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 1:1 . The land of Uz. Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the...

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• Job 1:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord The foe of foes I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not s...

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• Job 1:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his ch...

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• Job 1:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Great Affliction

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• Job 1:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 13:28 ; Amos 4:6-11 ; Ecclesiastes 9:2 ; Isaiah 28:19 ; Jeremiah 51:31 ; Job 1:13 ; Job 1:4 ; Job 16:14 ; Job 19:10 ; Job 19:9 ; Job 23:2 ; Job 27:14 ; Job 6:2 ; Job 6:3 ; Job...

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