Parallel Verses

Holman 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.

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,

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:

International Standard Version

While this messenger was still speaking, another came and announced, "Your children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house

A Conservative 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.

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;

Amplified

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,

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,

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;

Julia Smith Translation

This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born:

King James 2000

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:

Lexham Expanded 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.

Modern King James verseion

While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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,

New Heart 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,

The 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;

Webster

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:

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,

Youngs 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and drinking
שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

יין 
Yayin 
Usage: 140

בּכור 
B@kowr 
Usage: 117

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Satan's First Test Of Job

17 That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!” 18 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. 19 Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”



Cross References

Job 1:4

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:13

One day when Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom commanded his young men, “Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and courageous!”

Job 6:2-3

If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation placed with it in the scales.

Job 8:4

Since your children sinned against Him,
He gave them over to their rebellion.

Job 16:14

He breaks through my defenses again and again;
He charges at me like a warrior.

Job 19:9-10

He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.

Job 23:2

Today also my complaint is bitter.
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 27:14

Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword;
his descendants will never have enough food.

Psalm 34:19

Many adversities come to the one who is righteous,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

Isaiah 28:19

Every time it passes through,
it will carry you away;
it will pass through every morning—
every day and every night.
Only terror will cause you
to understand the message.

Jeremiah 51:31

Messenger races to meet messenger,
and herald to meet herald,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured
from end to end.

Lamentations 1:12

ל LamedIs this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?

Amos 4:6-11

I gave you absolutely nothing to eat
in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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