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:
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. The prologue introduces Job as a blameless and upright man who fears God. A heavenly council scene depicts Satan challenging Job's integrity, and God permits Satan to afflict Job with loss of his children and possessions while Job responds with …
Other Translations
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;
While 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.
And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,
Cross References
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I …
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three …
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s …
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.