Job 1:18

Satan's First Test Of Job

¹⁷ While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” ¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁹ and suddenly, a great wind came from across the desert, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Eating and Drinking

Job

Job 1:4

His sons used to go [in turn] and feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send word and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:13

Now there was a day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom commanded his servants, “Notice carefully, when Amnon’s heart is joyous with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not commanded you myself [and in doing so have I not taken full responsibility for his death]? Be courageous and brave.”

Job 6:2-3

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

Job 8:4

“If your children have sinned against Him,
Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.

Job 16:14

“He attacks me, making wound after wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.

Job 19:9-10

“He has stripped me of my honor
And removed the crown from my head.

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is contentious;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 27:14

“Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword;
And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.

Psalm 34:19

Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous,
But the Lord rescues him from them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers sacrifices and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as he who swears an oath is, so is he who is afraid to swear an oath.

Isaiah 28:19

“As often as it passes through, it will seize you;
For morning after morning it will pass through, by day and by night,
And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”

Jeremiah 51:31

One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;

Lamentations 1:12

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the Lord has inflicted [on me] on the day of His fierce anger.

Amos 4:6-11

“I also gave you cleanness of teeth [because of the famine] in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the Lord.