KJV King James Version
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:
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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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
WEB World English Bible
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
ASV American Standard Version
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;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, ‘Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Surrounding context — Job 1
15 And the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
16 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17 While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
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עַ֚דH5704 · adtillזֶ֣הH2088 · zehthisמְדַבֵּ֔רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakוְזֶ֖הH2088 · zehthisבָּ֣אH935 · boto come (in): comeוַיֹּאמַ֑רH559 · a.marto sayבָּנֶ֨יךָH1121 · benson: childוּבְנוֹתֶ֤יךָH1323 · batdaughterאֹֽכְלִים֙H398 · a.khalto eatוְשֹׁתִ֣יםH8354 · sha.tahto drinkיַ֔יִןH3196 · ya.yinwineבְּבֵ֖יתH1004 · betplaceאֲחִיהֶ֥םH251 · achbrother: male-siblingהַבְּכֽוֹר׃H1060 · be.khorfirstborn
Cross-references
Job 1:4And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.Job 1:13And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:Isaiah 28:19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [to] understand the report.Psalm 34:19Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.Job 23:2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.Amos 4:6-11And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.Ecclesiastes 9:2All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.Job 19:9-10He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.Lamentations 1:12[Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.Job 8:4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;Jeremiah 51:31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end,Job 6:2-3Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!Job 16:14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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