Job 1:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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,”
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“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,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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:”
King James Version · Public Domain“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;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“While this <FI>one<Fi> is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 1:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
- 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.
- Job 1:13One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Job 8:4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
- Job 16:14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
- Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
- Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
- Isaiah 28:19As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
- Jeremiah 51:31One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
- Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
- Amos 4:6“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
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