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Job 1:13
Job 1:13 is verse 13 of Job chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
King James Version
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
World English Bible
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
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Job 1:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
12 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
13 One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
14 a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
15 the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 1:4Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Proverbs 27:1Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.