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Job 1:18
18While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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:
- English Standard Version (ESV)While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
- New King James Version (NKJV)While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- New Living Translation (NLT)While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: “Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother’s home.
Context of Job 1:18
16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 17While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 20At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship
Read all of Job 1Job 1:18 word by word
עַ֚ד זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֔ר וְזֶ֖ה בָּ֣א וַיֹּאמַ֑ר בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֤יךָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ וְשֹׁתִ֣ים יַ֔יִן בְּבֵ֖ית אֲחִיהֶ֥ם הַבְּכֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- yet speakingדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
- there cameבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
- also another, and saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
- Thy sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- and thy daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
- eatingאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- and drinkingשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
- wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
- in their eldestבְּכוֹרbekôr · firstbornH1060
- brother’sאָח'âch · brother: male-siblingH251
- houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
Cross-references for Job 1:18
- Job 6:2“If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
- Job 16:14Again and again he bursts upon me; he rushes at me like a warrior.
- Job 19:9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
- Isaiah 28:19As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
- Jeremiah 51:31One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,
- Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
- Amos 4:6“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.
- Job 1:4His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
- Job 8:4When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
- Job 27:14However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
- Psalms 34:19The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;
- Ecclesiastes 9:2All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.
- 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.”
Commentaries on Job 1:18
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Eating and drinking wine - ; the notes at Job 1:4, Job 1:13.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-19Verses 13-19 Satan brought Job's troubles upon him on the day that his children began their course of feasting. The troubles all came upon Job at once; while one messenger of evil tidings was speaking, another followed. His dearest and most valuable possessions were his ten children; news is brought him that they are killed. They were taken away when he had most need of them to comfort him under other losses. In God only have we a help present at all…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-19These attacks took away the blessings listed in 1:2–3. Job was left with four messengers who came to report terrible news and a wife who gave poor advice. The phrase "While he was still speaking" emphasizes the repeated nature of the attacks (see Jeremiah 51:31). The phrase "I alone have escaped to tell you" emphasizes the complete destruction of Job’s resources.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-2213. wine--not specified in Job 1:4. The mirth inspired by the "wine" here contrasts the more sadly with the alarm which interrupted it.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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