Job 1:18

Satan's First Test Of Job

¹⁷ While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” ¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁹ and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Eating and Drinking

Job

Job 1:4

His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:13

Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Job 6:2-3

“Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

Job 8:4

“If your sons sinned against Him,
Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.

Job 16:14

“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.

Job 19:9-10

“He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is rebellion;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 27:14

“Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who is afraid to swear.

Isaiah 28:19

“As often as it passes through, it will seize you;
For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night,
And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”

Jeremiah 51:31

One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Amos 4:6-11

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.