What Does Job 1:18 Mean in the King James?
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew says, “this one speaking, and this one came,” putting the next voice inside the previous one’s unfinished sentence.
THE MEANING
You are placed inside the moment when one report is still being spoken and another arrives. The children are eating and drinking wine together in their eldest brother’s house, an ordinary scene now held beside the next voice’s news. The interruption itself carries the shock before the next line names what happens.
THE ROOT
מְדַבֵּר
mədabbēr
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
to speak, utter
The Hebrew pairs זֶה וְזֶה (zeh ve-zeh, “this one and this one”): while one is speaking, another arrives. The same root gives דָּבָר (dāḇār), “word” or “matter,” so speech here is the channel through which the next matter enters the room.
ALSO GROWS
dāḇār: word, matter, or thing
דָּבָר
The root joins speaking with the matter spoken of; here, words bring another family scene into Job’s awareness.
dibber: spoke, uttered
דִּבֵּר
This verb form shows the root in action: the first messenger’s speech is still underway when the next messenger arrives.
THE PATTERN
The next report arrives before the present one is finished, collapsing the pause between one shock and the next.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.THE THREAD
While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.Luke repeats the same hinge: one person is still speaking when another arrives with a report. The interruption is part of the weight in both scenes, bringing the next words before the first speaker can finish.
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