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Job 1:18

Job chapter 1 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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;

Context

v.17While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

v.18This passage

v.19and, 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.

Cross references

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

  • Amos 4:6

    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 Jehovah.

  • Job 23:2

    Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2

    All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

  • Job 6:2

    Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

  • Job 8:4

    If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

  • Psalms 34:19

    Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.