Job 1:18
What does Job 1:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 1:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000While 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 · 1611While 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 · 1901While 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;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862While this <FI>one<Fi> 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890While 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;
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.
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