18While 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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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.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. …
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
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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…
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