Job 1:18
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
Cross-reference
Job 1:4 describes the children feasting — this verse ends that same feast in tragedy.
Job 1:13 already described the same feast — this messenger repeats it, showing the chronological progression of disaster.
In Job 16:14, Job says God breaks him with breach upon breach — this is the most devastating breach: his children's death.
Job 6:2 expresses Job's wish to weigh his grief, directly responding to the calamity of his children's death in Job 1:18.
In Job 6:3, Job compares his grief to heavy sand — this reflects the unbearable weight of losing his children here.
In Job 8:4, Bildad later assumes Job's children died because they sinned — a theological verdict not present in the original event.
In Job 19:9, Job laments being stripped of honor — this loss of children is part of that stripping.