‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.’ So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
Job 1:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, |
‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.’ So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
a messenger came to Job and reported, ‘While the oxen were ploughing and the donkeys grazing nearby,
His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what a day might bring.
For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
‘Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly