Job 1:18
Good News Translation
Before he had finished speaking, another servant came and said, "Your children were having a feast at the home of your oldest son,

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

Contemporary English Version
That servant was still speaking, when a fourth one dashed up and said, "Your children were having a feast and drinking wine at the home of your oldest son,

New American Bible
He was still speaking when another came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

there came.

Job 6:2,3 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Job 16:14 He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

Job 19:9,10 He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head. . . .

Job 23:2 Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Isaiah 28:19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.

Jeremiah 51:31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

Lamentations 1:12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.

Amos 4:6-11 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Thy sons.

Job 1:4,13 And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them. . . .

Job 8:4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

Job 27:14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Ecclesiastes 9:2 But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.

eating.

2 Samuel 13:28 And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.

Context
Job Loses His Children and Possessions
17And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. 18He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,19A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.…
Cross References
Job 1:17
And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 1:19
A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 8:4
Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

Job 1:17
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