Job 1:18 Cross References

Job 1:18

18: While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: "Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother's home.

One day when Job's sons and daughters were dining at the oldest brother's house,

Every year when Job's sons had birthdays, they invited their brothers and sisters to join them for a celebration. On these occasions they would get together to eat and drink.

"I brought hunger to every city and famine to every town. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
"I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
People staggered from one town to another for a drink of water, but there was never enough. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
"I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
"I sent plagues against you like the plagues I sent against Egypt long ago. I killed your young men in war and slaughtered all your horses. The stench of death filled the air! But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.

Your children obviously sinned against him, so their punishment was well deserved.

The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether they are righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who take oaths are treated like people who don't.

Absalom told his men, "Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don't be afraid. I'm the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!"

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has destroyed my hope.

The righteous face many troubles, but the LORD rescues them from each and every one.

Again and again that flood will come, morning after morning, day and night, until you are carried away." This message will bring terror to your people.

"If my sadness could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales,
they would be heavier than all the sands of the sea. That is why I spoke so rashly.

"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger.

If they have a multitude of children, their children will die in war or starve to death.

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