Job 1:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

There came

Thy sons

Ecclesiastes 9:2

General references

1 Kings 1:22

Ezekiel 24:26

Bible References

There came

Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a warrior.

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Even today is my complaint bitter: my hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a terror just to understand the report.

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side,

Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.

Thy sons

And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one on his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

If your children have sinned against him, and he has cast them away for their transgression;

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

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 sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.

General references

And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

That he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?