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Job 1:18

Job 1:18
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 1:13-19

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,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 1:18-19

The fourth stroke, the death of Job's children. The wind struck the four corners of the house, being a whirlwind. It came from the side or region of the desert.