Job 1:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

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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.
  • Job 1:13 : 13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! 3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
  • Job 16:14 : 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
  • Job 19:9-9 : 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head. 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
  • Isa 28:19 : 19 Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.
  • Jer 51:31 : 31 One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter:
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.
  • Amos 4:6-9 : 6 But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste. 8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 9 I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 10 I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. 11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

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

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

    15 And the men of Sheba came against them and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

    16 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

    17 And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

  • Job 1:19
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    19 When 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.

  • Job 1:4-5
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    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.

    5 And 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.

  • Gen 19:31-36
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    31 And 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:

    32 Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

    33 And 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.

    34 And 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.

    35 And 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.

    36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

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    30 But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

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    30 Now while they were on their way, news was given to David that Absalom had put to death all the sons of the king and that not one of them was still living.

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    1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

  • Luke 17:27-28
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    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;

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

    26 And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.

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    11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

  • 2 Kgs 4:18
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    18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

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  • Hag 2:16
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    5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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