Job 1:13

And there was a day,.... Which according to the Targum was the first day of the week, but this is not certain, nor material; nor can it be said whether it was the day following that, Satan had leave…

And there was a day - That is, on the day on which the regular turn came for the banquet to be held in the house of the older brother; compare the notes at Job 1:4. And drinking wine - This…

We have here a particular account of Job's troubles.

I. Satan brought them upon him on the very day that his children began their course of feasting, at their eldest brother's house (Job 1:13), where,…

Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken

Between Job 1:12-13 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn…