Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 1:13
Verse Job 1:13. There was a day] The first day of the week, says the Targum. It no doubt refers to one of those birthday festivals mentioned before.
Verse Job 1:13. There was a day] The first day of the week, says the Targum. It no doubt refers to one of those birthday festivals mentioned before.
AND THERE WAS A DAY - That is, on the day on which the regular turn came for the banquet to be held in the house of the older brother; compare the notes at Job 1:4. AND DRINKING WINE - This circumstan...
II. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND SATAN AND THE RESULTS CHAPTER 1:6-22 _ 1. A scene in heaven, Jehovah's challenge and Satan's, accusation (Job 1:6)_ 2. Satan's power manifested (Job 1:13) 3...
JOB'S MISFORTUNE. The activity of the Satan is depicted, though he himself remains invisible. Between Job 1:12 and Job 1:13 there is an interval, an ominous silence like that which precedes the storm....
THERE WAS. DAY. the fit, or usual day. When Job was seventy. See notes on p. 666. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
Job's first trial; and its issue: his reverence towards God remains unshaken Between Job 1:12 there is an interval, an ominous stillness like that which precedes the storm. The poet has drawn aside t...
4. The first trialloss of possessions and loved ones (Job 1:13-19) TEXT 1:13-19 (13) And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house...
_AND THERE WAS A DAY WHEN HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS WERE EATING AND DRINKING WINE IN THEIR ELDEST BROTHER'S HOUSE:_ Wine - not specified in Job 1:4. The mirth inspired by the wine here contrasts the...
THE PROLOGUE Job 1:2, which form the Prologue to the book, describe (_a_) the prosperity and piety of Job; (_b_) a scene in heaven in which the Satan questions the motives of his piety; and (_c_) his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB The Book of...
A birthday should be a happy day. But this birthday was a terrible day. On this day, Satan attacked Job. Job’s troubles came suddenly. Job’s children were not ready for that day. They were behaving q...
וַ יְהִ֖י הַ יֹּ֑ום וּ בָנָ֨יו וּ
IV. THE SHADOW OF GOD'S HAND Job 1:13 COMING now to the sudden and terrible changes which are to prove the faithfulness of the servant of God, we must not fail to observe that in the development of...
STRIPPED OF EVERY POSSESSION Job 1:13 There are dark days in our lives, when messenger follows on the heel of messenger, and we sit down amid the ruins of our happiness. All that made life gay and b...
In magnificence of argument and beauty of style this Book is one of the grandest in the divine Library. The story of Job is presented in dramatic form. It opens with a picture of Job. He is seen in th...
(13) В¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: (14) And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, an...
A Heavenly Meeting About a Good Man I. INTRODUCTION A. Job is the first of the poetical books which consist of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. 1. But don't e...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...
AND THERE WAS A DAY,.... Which according to the Targum was the first day of the week, but this is not certain, nor material; nor can it be said whether it was the day following that, Satan had leave t...
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: Ver. 13. _And there was a day_] A dismal day it proved to Job, "a day of trouble a...
Job's Great Affliction...
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, at one of their customary banquets;...
JOB, HIS FAMILY AND HIS PROMINENCE (vv.1-5) Uz is considered to have been in the area between Syria and Babylon. There Job lived with his wife, seven sons and three daughters. He is first spoken of...
Satan begins his assaults on the very day when Job's 10 children were feasting. The _Sabeans (suh BEE uhnz),_ may have been from the region of Sheba in southwest Arabia, or from the town called Sheba,...
13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, anoth...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Job 1:13 day H3117 sons H1121 daughters H1323 eating H398 (H8802) drinking H8354 (H8802) wine H3196 oldest...
Job 1:6. _Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them._ Angels and all kinds of intelligent spirits had, as it were, a special,...
Job 1:1. _There was a man in the land of Uz,_ Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God. Job 1:1. _Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright...
CONTENTS: Job's family and their piety. Satan's challenge and the calamities that befell Job. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Job. CONCLUSION: God allows Satan power over His saints but it is always limited...
Job 1:1. _The land of Uz._ Moses is always correct in calling countries after the name of the first possessor. Uz was in the east beyond Jordan, and south of mount Hermon. It fell to the lot of the ha...
_So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord _ THE FOE OF FOES I. The enthusiasm of his malignity. No sooner does he receive permission than he begins in terrible earnestness. He does not seem...
JOB 1:1 Prologue: Job’s Character and the Circumstances of His Test. The book opens by introducing Job as blameless and upright. He is blessed with family and possessions. His life embodies faith in G...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 1:13 Job’s troubles come from multiple directions in rapid succession. The SABEANS come from the south (v. Job 1:15), the FIRE fro
_FOURTH PART OF INTRODUCTION.—INFLICTION OF THE TRIAL_ I. Occasion of the trial (Job 1:13). “There was a day.” Satan watches for the time best suited for his designs. The occasion chosen that the tri...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" to Job extends to two chapters. In the first we are given an account, firstly, of his outward circumstances—his abode, wealth, family, etc; and of his characte...
Shall we turn now to the book of Job, chapter 1. As we come to the book of Job, we actually enter into a new section of the Old Testament. As you know, the Old Testament is divided into different divi...
Ecclesiastes 9:12; Job 1:4; Luke 12:19; Luke 12:20; Luke 17:27;...