Job 1:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Luke 12:19-20
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. …
Job 1:4
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Contentment Despondency Faith Fortune, Changes of Job Murmuring Offenses

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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, he having (we may suppose) the double portion, the entertainment was the richest and most plentiful. The whole family, no doubt, was in perfect repose, and all were easy and under no apprehension of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. wine--not specified in Job 1:4. The mirth inspired by the “wine” here contrasts the more sadly with the alarm which interrupted it.