4His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


In Context

1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

2 He had seven sons and three daughters,

3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

4 His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.

6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan also came with them.

Job 1:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went, and made a feast by houses every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons have gone and made a banquet — the house of each in his day — and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:4And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.