Job 1:4 (YLT)

Passage

And his sons have gone and made a banquet--the house of each <FI>in<Fi> his day--and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

Nearby Context

Job 1:2 And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,

Job 1:3 and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.

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

Job 1:5 and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings--the number of them all--for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

Job 1:6 And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "sons", "gone", "banquet--the", "house", "each", "day--and", and "sent". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "sons", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "and his substance is seven thousand sheep..." into verse 5's "and it cometh to pass when they...", so "called" and "sons" 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 "sons" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.