Job 1:13

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest 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

12The Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself do not put forth your hand."So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

14that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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Cross References

Job 1:4His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Ecclesiastes 9:12For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Luke 17:27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, 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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