when: Job 1:4, Proverbs 27:1, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:20, Luke 17:27-Joel :, Luke 21:34 Reciprocal: Job 1:18 - Thy sons Job 9:23 - If the Job 15:21 - in prosperity Job 16:11 - to the ungodly Job 19:10 - destroyed Matthew 8:32 - the whole read more
messenger: 1 Samuel 4:17, 2 Samuel 15:13, Jeremiah 51:31 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:31 - ox Job 9:17 - multiplieth Job 39:10 - General Psalms 42:7 - Deep calleth Proverbs 23:5 - riches read more
Sabeans: Genesis 10:7, Genesis 10:28, Genesis 25:3, Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 45:14, Ezekiel 23:42, Joel 3:8 and I only: Job 1:16, Job 1:17, Job 1:19, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:21 Reciprocal: Genesis 14:13 - one Genesis 34:28 - General Deuteronomy 28:31 - ox 2 Samuel 1:3 - am I Job 5:5 - the robber Job 16:7 - hast made Job 18:9 - robber Job 19:16 - my servant Job 20:22 - every hand Job 24:2 - violently Ezekiel 24:26 - General Ezekiel 27:23 - Sheba Hosea 6:9 - as troops read more
there came: Genesis 19:24, Leviticus 9:24, 1 Kings 18:38, 2 Kings 1:10, 2 Kings 1:12, 2 Kings 1:14, Amos 7:4, Revelation 13:13 The fire of God: or, A great fire, Exodus 9:28, 1 Samuel 14:15, *marg. Reciprocal: Genesis 34:28 - General Numbers 11:1 - and the fire 1 Kings 1:22 - General Job 1:15 - and I only Job 19:16 - my servant Job 22:20 - the fire Ephesians 2:2 - of the air read more
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:Messenger, … — One messenger immediately followed another; Satan so ordering by God's permission, that there might seem to be more than ordinary displeasure of God against him in his troubles, and that he might not have leisure to recollect himself, but be overwhelmed by a complication of calamities. read more
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.Sabeans — A people of Arabia, who led a wandering life, and lived by robbery and spoil.I — Whom Satan spared, that Job might have speedy and certain intelligence of his calamity. read more
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.The fire of God — As thunder is the voice of God, so lightning is his fire. How terrible then were the tidings of this destruction, which came immediately from the hand of God! And seemed to shew, that God was angry at his very offerings, and would receive no more from his hands. read more
13. There was a day Literally, Now it was the day; the day of festivity, which in the rotation happened to be at the house of the firstborn. On this account it was probably the most marked of all the feasts of the year. It was a feast, too, in which the drinking of wine is specified, to set forth its sumptuousness and hilarity. These two circumstances heighten the precipice down which the family is so soon to be plunged. In the mention of wine-drinking we have, in part, the reason for... read more
FOUR MESSENGERS OF MISFORTUNE, Job 1:13-19. “It is not accidental,” says Hengstenberg, “that there are just four catastrophes divided into two pairs, and corresponding to the fourfold particularization of the righteousness of Job. In them may be seen a sort of irony of destiny touching his and all human righteousness.” The Germans have also remarked upon the peculiarity that the first and third of the calamities are ascribed to human, the second and fourth to celestial agencies. Evans. The... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 1:16
Job 1:16 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Ver. 16. Whiles he was yet speaking ] See here, we may, that miseries many times stay not for a mannerly succession to each other, but, in a rude importunity, throng ill at once: Fluctus fluctum trudit, one deep calleth to another; and as one shower is unburdened, another is... read more