Job 1:18

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, 'Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother,

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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 with Strong's Numbers

    While he was yet speaking,{H1696} there came{H935} also another, and said,{H559} Thy sons{H1121} and thy daughters{H1323} were eating{H398} and drinking{H8354} wine{H3196} in their eldest{H1060} brother's{H251} house;{H1004}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    While he was yet speaking{H1696}{(H8764)}, there came{H935}{(H8802)} also another, and said{H559}{(H8799)}, Thy sons{H1121} and thy daughters{H1323} were eating{H398}{(H8802)} and drinking{H8354}{(H8802)} wine{H3196} in their eldest{H1060} brother's{H251} house{H1004}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Whyle he was speakinge, there came yet another, ad sayde: Thy sonnes and doughters were eatinge ad drynkinge wyne in their eldest brothers house,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house,

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    While this `one' 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 (1901)

    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;

  • 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,

  • World English Bible (2000)

    While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:4 : 4 His sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
  • Job 1:13 : 13 One day, while Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother,
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales! 3 For now, it is heavier than the sands of the seas; that is why my words are impulsive.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have sinned against Him, He gave them over to the consequences of their transgressions.
  • Job 16:14 : 14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.
  • Job 19:9-9 : 9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. 10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them.
  • Isa 28:19 : 19 As often as it passes through, it will seize you. Morning after morning, day and night, it will pass through. The understanding of this message will bring only terror.
  • Jer 51:31 : 31 One courier runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
  • Amos 4:6-9 : 6 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it. 8 People staggered from city to city for water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 9 I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 10 I sent plagues among you like those in Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. The stench of your camps rose into your nostrils, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Absalom ordered his servants, saying, 'Watch when Amnon’s heart is cheerful from drinking wine, and when I say to you, "Strike Amnon down," then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I ordered you? Be strong and courageous.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 1:13-17
    5 verses
    84%

    13 One day, while Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother,

    14 a messenger came to Job and said, 'The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

    15 when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

    16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

    17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties, swept down on the camels, and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

  • 19 when suddenly a mighty wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

  • Job 1:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 His sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

    5 When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and consecrate them. Rising early in the morning, he would offer burnt offerings for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Job did this regularly.

  • Gen 19:31-36
    6 verses
    72%

    31 The older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to marry us in the customary way of the entire earth.

    32 "Come, let us get our father to drink wine and sleep with him so that we can preserve our family line through our father."

    33 That night, they made their father drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

    34 The next day, the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I lay with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through him."

    35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and lay with him. Again, he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

    36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

  • 30 But when this son of yours came, who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field, with no one there to separate them, and one of them struck the other and killed him.

    7 Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, 'Hand over the one who killed his brother so that we may put him to death for taking his brother’s life. We want to destroy the heir as well.' They will extinguish my remaining ember, leaving neither name nor remnant for my husband on the earth.

  • 30 While they were on the way, word came to David: 'Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left.'

  • 1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • 69%

    27 People were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

    28 It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

  • 69%

    25 Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. As he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things were about.

    27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.'

  • 2 He had seven sons and three daughters born to him.

  • 69%

    11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words he had spoken to the king.

    12 Their father asked them, 'Which way did he go?' His sons showed him the road the man of God from Judah had taken.

  • 11 Then He said, 'There was a man who had two sons.'

  • 18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

  • 13 Not long after, the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in reckless living.

  • 35 Jonadab said to the king, 'Look, the king’s sons have come. It has happened just as your servant said.’

  • 1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • 28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

  • 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

  • 16 from that time, when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, only ten were there; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, only twenty were there.

  • 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 28 'One of them went away from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.'

  • 23 The owner of the house went out to them and said, "No, my brothers, do not commit such an evil act. Since this man has come into my house, do not do this disgraceful act.

  • 17 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 6 When the steward caught up to them, he said these words to them.

  • 20 After these things, it was told to Abraham, 'Behold, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:

  • 19 They said to one another, "Look, here comes the dreamer!"

  • 20 While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

  • 1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 23:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

  • 21 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 18 But a young man saw them and reported it to Absalom. So both of them left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they went down into it.