• Job 1:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 5 After a series of banquet days was complete, Job would send for them in order to sanctify them. Then he would get up early in the morning and offer up burnt sacrifices+ for each of them. For Job said: “Maybe my sons have sinned and have cursed God in their heart.” That is what Job would always do.+

  • Job 1:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

    • 5 And it would occur that when the banquet days had gone round the circuit, Job would send and sanctify them;+ and he got up early in the morning and offered up burnt sacrifices+ according to the number of all of them; for, said Job, “maybe my sons have sinned and have cursed*+ God in their heart.”+ That is the way Job would do always.+

  • Job 1:5
    The Bible in Living English

    • 5* and when the banquet-days had gone the round Job used to send and hallow them, and the first thing in the morning offer a burnt-offering equal in number to all of them, because Job thought “Maybe my sons sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job was doing things like that all the time.

  • Job 1:5
    American Standard Version

    • 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

  • Job 1:5
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 5 And so it was, when the days of the banquet came round, that Job sent and hallowed them and rising early in the morning offered ascending-sacrifices according to the number of them all; for Job said, Peradventure my sons have sinned, And have cursed God in their hearts. Thus and thus was Job wont to do all the days.