Job 1:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

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  • Job 1:4 : 4 His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.
  • Prov 27:1 : 1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Luke 17:27-29 : 27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

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  • Job 1:4-12
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    4His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

    5And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

    6And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

    7And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

    8And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

    9And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

    10Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

    11But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

    12And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

  • Job 1:18-20
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    18And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

    19When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

    20Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

  • Job 1:14
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    14And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

  • Job 1:1-2
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    1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

    2And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • Job 42:11-13
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    11And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

    12And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

    13And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • Job 2:1-2
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    1And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

    2And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

  • Isa 22:13
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    13But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Job 42:15-16
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    15And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

    16And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

  • Job 3:1-2
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    1Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

    2Job made answer and said,

  • Luke 17:27-28
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    27They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.

    28In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

  • Job 23:1
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    1And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 12:1
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    1And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 42:7-8
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    7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

    8And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

  • Job 1:22
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    22In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

  • Luke 15:13
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    13And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

  • Job 19:1
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    1And Job made answer and said,

  • Job 21:1
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    1Then Job made answer and said,

  • Gen 19:31
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    31And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

  • Dan 5:1
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    1Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

  • Job 27:1
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    1And Job again took up the word and said,

  • Gen 19:33-35
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    33And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

    34And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

    35And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

  • Luke 15:25
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    25Now the older son was in the field: and when he came near the house, the sounds of music and dancing came to his ears.

  • Job 29:5
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    5While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

  • Job 2:6
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    6And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Jer 16:8
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    8And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Job 29:1
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    1And Job again took up the word and said,

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Job 6:1
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    1And Job made answer and said,