Job 29:5

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The Almighty was still with me, and my children surrounded me.

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  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. 5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they confront their enemies at the gate.
  • Song 2:4 : 4 He brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 On my bed at night, I sought the one my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him. 2 I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and the squares; I will seek the one my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 As for me, I said in my prosperity, 'I will never be shaken.'
  • Deut 33:27-29 : 27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, 'Destroy them!' 28 So Israel will live in safety, isolated in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew. 29 Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will come cringing to you, and you will tread on their high places.
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
  • Judg 6:12-13 : 12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.' 13 Gideon said to him, 'Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about, saying, ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.'
  • Job 1:2-5 : 2 He had seven sons and three daughters born to him. 3 His wealth consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east. 4 His sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and consecrate them. Rising early in the morning, he would offer burnt offerings for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Job did this regularly.
  • Job 23:3 : 3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I cannot perceive him. 9 When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I cannot catch a glimpse of him. 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
  • Job 42:13-16 : 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For You are the God of my refuge; why have You rejected me? Why must I go about mourning under the oppression of my enemy?
  • Ps 44:8-9 : 8 But You have saved us from our adversaries, and You have put to shame those who hate us. 9 In God we make our boast all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Children’s children are the crown of the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only for a night?
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 Jesus answered them, 'Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'

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    2 Oh, that I were as in the months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me,

    3 when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

    4 I was as in the prime of my life, when the intimate friendship of God was over my tent.

  • Job 29:6-7
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    6 My steps were bathed in cream, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.

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  • Prov 8:29-31
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    29 When He set the boundary for the sea so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

    30 Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman, delighting day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

    31 Rejoicing in His whole world and delighting in the sons of men.

  • Prov 8:25-27
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    25 Before the mountains were shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.

    26 Before He made the earth, the fields, or the first dust of the world.

    27 When He established the heavens, I was there; when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep.

  • 5 But if you earnestly seek God and plead for mercy from the Almighty,

  • 11 For when the ear heard me, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me.

  • Job 22:25-26
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    25 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.

    26 For then you will take delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

  • 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother,

  • 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • 13 Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 18 Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

  • 24 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from iniquity.

  • Job 23:5-7
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    5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

    6 Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

    7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 18 but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Job 31:25-26
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    25 if I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had obtained much,

    26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • 3 as long as my breath remains in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

  • Job 23:16-17
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    16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

    17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • 23 All His judgments are before me, and I have not turned away from His statutes.

  • 13 "With Him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His."

  • 5 Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.

  • 15 If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • 12 By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy does not triumph over me.

  • 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • 14 He will complete what he has planned for me, and many such things are in his mind.

  • 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

  • Job 3:15-16
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    15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

    16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • 21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate,

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

  • 2 Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • Job 23:10-11
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    10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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    15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.

  • 23 From eternity I was established, from the beginning, before the origins of the earth.