Job 1:13 “One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine…”

Job 1:13

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

Darby Translation

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“when”

Proverbs 27:1 Luke 21:34 Ecclesiastes 9:12 Luke 17:27–29 Job 1:4 Luke 12:19

Proverbs 27:1 · BSB

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Luke 21:34 · BSB

But 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 · BSB

For 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.

Luke 17:27–29 · BSB

People 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.

Job 1:4 · BSB

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

Luke 12:19 · BSB

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

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