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:

While he was yet speaking {H1696}, there came {H935} also another, and said {H559}, Thy sons {H1121} and thy daughters {H1323} were eating {H398} and drinking {H8354} wine {H3196} in their eldest {H1060} brother's {H251} house {H1004}:

While he was still speaking, another one came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

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,

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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Cross-References

  • Job 1:4 (4 votes)

    ¶ And 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 1:13 (3 votes)

    ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

  • Job 16:14 (2 votes)

    He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

  • Amos 4:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ And 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.

  • Amos 4:11 (2 votes)

    I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2 (2 votes)

    All [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.

  • Psalms 34:19 (2 votes)

    Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.