Job 1:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Wind from the wilderness - literally, 'from across the wilderness,' south of Job's house. The tornado came the more violently over the desert as being uninterrupted (Isaiah 21:1; Hosea 13:15).

The young men - rather the young people; including the daughters (so in Ruth 2:21).

Job 1:19

19 And, behold, there came a great wind fromi the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.