Job 1:18-21

Satan Takes Job's Property and Children

18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, a "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across b the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you."

20 Then Job arose and c tore his d robe and e shaved his head f and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, g "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I h return. The Lord i gave, and the Lord has taken away; j blessed be the name of the Lord."

  1. Cross References
    Job 1:4
    His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
    Job 1:13
    Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:1
    The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
    Jeremiah 4:11
    At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse.
    Hosea 13:15
    Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 37:29
    When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
  4. Cross References
    Ezra 9:3
    As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:29
    "'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
  6. Cross References
    1 Peter 5:6
    Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
  7. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 5:15
    As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
    Psalms 49:17
    For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
    1 Timothy 6:7
    For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 3:19
    By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
    Psalms 90:3
    You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  9. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 5:19
    Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil - this is the gift of God.
    James 1:17
    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 113:2
    Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore!
    Daniel 2:20
    Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
    Ephesians 5:20
    Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    1 Thessalonians 5:18
    Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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