Job 1:13

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“One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,”

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BSBPD

“One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 1:13 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 1:4Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
  2. Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
  3. Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
  4. Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
  5. Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
  6. Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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