Job 1:13

It came about that on a certain day, his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him himself do not stretch out your hand.” Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh.

14A messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them.

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Cross References

Job 1:4On each son's assigned day, he would give a feast in his house. They would send and call for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12Surely, no one knows when his time will come. 2 As fish are caught in a deadly net, 2 or birds are caught in a snare, 1 the children of human beings are ensnared by evil times 2 that suddenly fall upon them.

Luke 17:27They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark—and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13

Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →

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