4 Job’s sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes on their specific day,1:4. The "specific day" could be a set date or a birthday, for example. also inviting their sisters to come and eat and drink with them. 5 When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and purify them by getting up early in the morning to offer a burnt offering for each of them. He was concerned, thinking to himself, "Maybe my children have sinned in some way and have unintentionally offended1:5. The word used here is "blessed" but is usually understood as a euphemism for "cursed." God." This is what Job always did.
18 While he was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother 19 when all of a sudden a tremendous wind came in from the desert. It hit the house on all four sides so that it collapsed on them and they died. Only I escaped to bring you this news."