Job 1:18

Translations

Modern

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,

Traditional

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:

Literal

Still this one was speaking, when this one came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn,

Latin

Adhuc loquebatur ille, et ecce alius intravit, et dixit: Filiis tuis et filiabus vescentibus et bibentibus vinum in domo fratris sui primogeniti,

Original

Hebrew

English

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,

Notes

Job 1:13–19

These 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.

Job 1:1–2:13

God and Satan agree to test Job, which causes his troubles and confirms his integrity (1:20–21; 2:10). None of the book's characters ever learn of this council in heaven.

Theme notes and profiles

Satan God or Satan?

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 1:4
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Job 1:13
One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Lamentations 1:12
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Job 23:2
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Amos 4:6–11
“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Job 16:14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
Job 19:9–10
He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
Job 6:2–3
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Jeremiah 51:31
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
Isaiah 28:19
As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Bereavement: Resignation In Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Trial of, by Affliction of Satan Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: Phenomena of Wind Destroyed Job's Children Resignation: Exemplified Resignation: Loss of Children Temptation: A Test

Job 1:18

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