Job 1:18 - Exposition

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said (see the comment on Job 1:16 ), Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house (comp. Job 1:13 ). It is a common proverb that "misfortunes never come singly." Shakespeare says they "come not single foes, but in battalions." Still, so overwhelming a series of calamities falling upon a single individual all in one day could not but strike those who heard of them as abnormal, and almost certainly supernatural. So Job's friends concluded ( Job 5:17 ).