The Lord said to the accuser, “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against him!” So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 One day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the eldest brother’s house, Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And there was a day when [Job's] sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house [on his birthday], American Standard Version (1901) And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house, Common English Bible One day Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house. Catholic Public Domain Version So, on a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their first-born brother, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, |
The Lord said to the accuser, “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against him!” So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord.
a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,
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.
For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,