Job 1:4 (GNV)

Passage

And his sonnes went and banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.

Nearby Context

Job 1:2 And he had seue sonnes, and three daughters.

Job 1:3 His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundreth yoke of oxen, and fiue hundreth shee asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.

Job 1:4 And his sonnes went and banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.

Job 1:5 And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day.

Job 1:6 Nowe on a day when the children of God came and stoode before the Lord, Satan came also among them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "sonnes", "went", "banketted", "houses", "euery", "sent", and "three". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "sonnes", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe..." into verse 5's "And when the dayes of their banketting...", so "called" and "sonnes" belong inside that flow. In Job context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "sonnes" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.