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:
KJV
Adhuc loquebatur ille, et ecce alius intravit, et dixit : Filiis tuis et filiabus vescentibus et bibentibus vinum in domo fratris sui primogeniti,
Vulgate
ἔτι τούτου λαλοῦντος ἄλλος ἄγγελος ἔρχεται λέγων τῷ Ἰώβ Τῶν υἱῶν σου καὶ τῶν θυγατέρων σου ἐσθιόντων καὶ πινόντων παρὰ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτῶν τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ,
LXX
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;
ASV
עַ֚ד זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֔ר וְ/זֶ֖ה בָּ֣א וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר בָּנֶ֨י/ךָ וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֤י/ךָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ וְ/שֹׁתִ֣ים יַ֔יִן בְּ/בֵ֖ית אֲחִי/הֶ֥ם הַ/בְּכֽוֹר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 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:
- Job 8:4 — If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;