Job 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

American Standard Version (1901)

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;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ While this messenger was speaking, another arrived and said: “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He was still speaking, and behold, another entered, and he said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine in the house of their first-born brother,

Job 1:18 Cross References

Job 1:4

His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another’s houses in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:13

One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother’s house,

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end:

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through, it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night, and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.”

Ecclesiastes 9:2

is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all.

Job 27:14

If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and their offspring have not enough to eat.

Job 23:2

“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 16:14

He bursts upon me again and again; he rushes at me like a warrior.

Job 8:4

If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”

Job 1:17

While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three columns, made a raid on the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.”