Job Loses His Property and Children

13 Now there was a day (A)when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house;

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13 One day when Job’s sons and daughters(A) were feasting(B) and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house,

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The Importance of Watching(A)

34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:34 dissipation

34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,(A) and that day will close on you suddenly(B) like a trap.

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19 And I will say to my soul, (A)“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; (B)eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (C)your soul will be required of you; (D)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

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19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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12 For (A)man also does not know his time:
Like fish taken in a cruel net,
Like birds caught in a snare,
So the sons of men are (B)snared in an evil time,
When it falls suddenly upon them.

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12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(A)
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.(B)

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My Son, Be Wise

27 Do(A) not boast about tomorrow,
For you do not know what a day may bring forth.

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27 Do not boast(A) about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.(B)

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And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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His sons used to hold feasts(A) in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the (A)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and (B)destroyed them all. 28 (C)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on (D)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

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27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

28 “It was the same in the days of Lot.(A) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

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