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 permission, that there might seem to be more than ordinary displeasure of God against Job in his troubles, and that he might not have leisure to recollect himself, but be overwhelmed by a complication of calamities Thus the children of God are often in heaviness, λυπηθεντες, distressed, burdened with grief, through manifold trials; deep calls to deep; waves and billows, one after another, go over them. Let one affliction, therefore, quicken and excite us to prepare for another; for, how deep soever we may have drunk of the bitter cup, as long as we are in the world, we cannot be sure that we have drunk our share. Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking, &c. That is, feasting after their manner, and, as Job had generally feared and suspected, perhaps sinning against God, Job 1:5.