Job 1:18

New English Translation

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”

Job 1:13

Now the day came when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Job 1:17

While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:4

Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Job 16:14

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 27:14

If his children increase – it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Job 8:4

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Psalm 34:19

The godly face many dangers, but the Lord saves them from each one of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone shares the same fate – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

Isaiah 28:19

Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured.

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger. מ (Mem)