Job 1:18
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:
Job 1:18 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, |
| ASV | 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; |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn; |
| BBE | 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, |
| Webster | 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: |
What does Job 1:18 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 1:13-19
Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, another followed. His dearest and most valuable possessions were his ten children; news is brought him that they are killed. They were taken away when he had most need of them to comfort him under other losses. In God only have we…
Job 1:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 1:18
- Job 1:4
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
- Job 1:13
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
- Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
- Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Job 19:9-10
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Jeremiah 51:31
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
- Amos 4:6-11
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. …
- Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- 2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
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Context
- Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
- Job 1:18
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:
- Job 1:19
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 1:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entre tanto que éste hablaba, vino otro que dijo: Tus hijos y tus hijas estaban comiendo y bebiendo vino en casa de su hermano el primogénito; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Celui-ci parlait encore, qu’un autre vint et dit: Tes fils et tes filles mangeaient et buvaient du vin dans la maison de leur frère premier-né, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Während dieser noch redete, da kam ein anderer und sprach: Deine Söhne und deine Töchter aßen und tranken Wein im Hause ihres erstgeborenen Bruders; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Adhuc loquebatur ille, et ecce alius intravit, et dixit: Filiis tuis et filiabus vescentibus et bibentibus vinum in domo fratris sui primogeniti, |