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.


In Context

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

4 His 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.

5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, |It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.| Job did so continually.

6 Now it happened on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:4His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and 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 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.