Devine Scripture

Job 1:13

Job chapter 1 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.12And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.

v.13This passage

v.14that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 21:34

    But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

  • Job 1:4

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

  • Proverbs 27:1

    Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

  • Luke 12:19

    And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

  • Luke 17:27

    They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.