Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

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,

New American Standard Bible

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

King James 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:

Holman Bible

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.

International Standard Version

While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, "Your children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house

A Conservative 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.

American 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;

Amplified

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Bible in Basic English

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,

Darby Translation

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;

Julia Smith Translation

This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

At the time this one was speaking, {another} came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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,

The Emphasized Bible

Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, - Thy sons and thy daughters, were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother;

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:

World English Bible

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,

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and drinking
שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

בּכור 
B@kowr 
Usage: 117

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Satan's First Test Of Job

17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 18 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, 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."



Cross References

Job 1:4

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Job 1:13

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

2 Samuel 13:28

And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant."

Job 6:2-3

"Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances.

Job 8:4

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

Job 16:14

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

Job 19:9-10

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Job 23:2

"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Job 27:14

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message."

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Amos 4:6-11

"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

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