Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

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:

International Standard Version

Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house,

A Conservative Version

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

Amplified

Now there was a day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And then [there] was one day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Modern King James verseion

And a day came when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

NET Bible

Now the day came when Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

And there came a certain day, - when his sons and his daughters were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother.

Webster

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 eldest brother's house,

Youngs 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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and drinking
שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

בּכור 
B@kowr 
Usage: 117

References

Easton

Morish

Context Readings

Satan's First Test Of Job

12 “Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence. 13 One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and reported: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys grazing nearby,

Cross References

Job 1:4

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Proverbs 27:1

Don’t boast about tomorrow,
for you don’t know what a day might bring.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

Luke 12:19-20

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

Luke 17:27-29

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 21:34

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

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