Job 1:18

Easy-to-Read Version

That messenger was still speaking when another one came in and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house.

Hebrew Names Version
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

King James Version
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
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 Century Version
The third messenger was still speaking when another messenger arrived and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine together at the oldest brother's house.

New English Translation
While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Amplified Bible
While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

New American Standard Bible
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

World English Bible
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And whiles he was yet speaking, came an other, and sayd, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

Legacy Standard Bible
While this one was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn,

Berean Standard Bible
While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Contemporary English Version
That servant was still speaking, when a fourth one dashed up and said, "Your children were having a feast and drinking wine at the home of your oldest son,

Complete Jewish Bible
While he was still speaking, another one came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Darby Translation
While 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;

George Lamsa Translation
While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said to him, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brothers house;

Good News Translation
Before he had finished speaking, another servant came and said, "Your children were having a feast at the home of your oldest son,

Lexham English Bible
At the time this one was speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.

Literal Translation
While this one was still speaking, this other came and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whyle he was speakinge, there came yet another, ad sayde: Thy sonnes and doughters were eatinge ad drynkinge wyne in their eldest brothers house,

American Standard Version
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;

Bible in Basic English
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,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other, and sayde: Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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;

King James Version (1611)
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, & said, Thy sonnes, and thy daughters, were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother,

English Revised Version
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:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And yit he spak, and, lo! anothir entride, and seide, While thi sones and douytris eeten, and drunken wiyn in the hows of her firste gendrid brothir,

Update Bible Version
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

New King James Version
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
While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: "Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother's home.

New Life Bible
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 Revised Standard
While he was still speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, - Thy sons and thy daughters, were eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He 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,

Revised Standard Version
While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

Young's Literal Translation
While this [one] 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.

THE MESSAGE
While he was still talking, another messenger arrived and said, "Your children were having a party at the home of the oldest brother when a tornado swept in off the desert and struck the house. It collapsed on the young people and they died. I'm the only one to get out alive and tell you what happened."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

Contextual Overview

¹³ One day Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house. ¹⁴ A messenger came to Job and said, "We were plowing the fields with the oxen and the donkeys were eating grass nearby, ¹⁵ when some Sabeans attacked us and took your animals! They killed the other servants. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!" ¹⁶ That messenger was still speaking when another one came in and said, "A bolt of lightning struck your sheep and servants and burned them up. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!" ¹⁷ That messenger was still speaking when another one came in and said, "The Chaldeans sent out three raiding parties that attacked us and took the camels! They killed the other servants. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!" ¹⁸ That messenger was still speaking when another one came in and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house. ¹⁹ A strong wind suddenly came in from across the desert and blew the house down. It fell on your sons and daughters, and they are all dead. I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you the news!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there came: Job 6:2, Job 6:3, Job 16:14, Job 19:9, Job 19:10, Job 23:2, Isaiah 28:19, Jeremiah 51:31, Lamentations 1:12, Amos 4:6-11

Thy sons: Job 1:4, Job 1:13, Job 8:4, Job 27:14, Psalms 34:19, Ecclesiastes 9:2

eating: 2 Samuel 13:28

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 4:20 - eating Luke 8:42 - one

Cross-References

Psalms 19:6
It starts at one end of the sky and runs all the way to the other end. Nothing can hide from its heat.

Jeremiah 31:35
He makes the sun shine in the day, and he makes the moon and the stars shine at night. He stirs up the sea so that its waves crash on the shore. The Lord All-Powerful is his name. This is what the Lord says:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

While he was yet speaking, there came another,.... A servant of one of Job's sons, who was in waiting at the feast before mentioned, and here again repeated:

and said, thy sons and thy daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Eating and drinking wine - ; the notes at Job 1:4, Job 1:13.