Job Chapter 1 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Job 1:13

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
read chapter 1 in ASV

BBE Job 1:13

And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,
read chapter 1 in BBE

DARBY Job 1:13

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.
read chapter 1 in DARBY

KJV Job 1:13

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
read chapter 1 in KJV

WBT Job 1:13

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
read chapter 1 in WBT

WEB Job 1:13

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
read chapter 1 in WEB

YLT Job 1:13

And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
read chapter 1 in YLT

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. One of the birthdays, the eldest brother's probably, had come round, and the ordinary gathering (see ver. 4) had taken place - the feasting and drinking had begun, while the father, remaining in his own house, was perhaps interceding with God for his children, or anxiously considering the possibility that, in their light-hearted merriment, they might have put God away altogether from their thoughts, and So have practically renounced him, when the series of calamities began. How often calamity comes to us when we are least expecting it, when all seems quiet about us, when everything is prospering - nay, even when a high festival-time has come, and the joy-bells are sounding in our ears, and our 'hearts are elated within us! Job was, at any rate, spared the sudden plunge from exuberant joy into the depths of woe. It was his habit to preserve an even temper, and neither to be greatly exalted, nor, unless under an extremity of suffering, to be greatly depressed. He was now, however, about to be subjected to a fiery trial.

Ellicott's Commentary