Job 1:18

“While he was yet speaking, there came another, etc.] A servant of one of Job’s sons, who was in waiting at the feast before mentioned, and here again repeated: and said, thy sons and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house; (See Gill on “<180113>Job 1:13”).”

“Eating and drinking wine - ; the notes at Job 1:4, Job 1:13. return to 'Top of Page'”

“there came: Job 6:2, Job 6:3, Job 16:14, Job 19:9, Job 19:10, Job 23:2; Isa 28:19; Jer 51:31; Lam 1:12; Amo 4:6-11 Thy sons: Job 1:4, Job 1:13, Job 8:4, Job 27:14; Psa 34:19; Ecc 9:2 eating: Sa2 13:28 Job 1:19”

“The Fourth Messenger: 18 While he was yet speaking, another also came, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: and, behold, a great wind came across from the desert, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Instead of עוד, we have עד here: the former denotes continuity in time, the latter continuity in space, and they may be interchanged. עד in the signif. "while" is here construed with the participle, as Neh 7:3; comp. other constructions, Job 8:21; Sa1 14:19; Jon 4:2. "From the other side of the desert" is equivalent to, from its…”