Job 29:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

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  • Judg 11:8 : 8 Then the Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iphtah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest goe with vs, and fight against the children of Ammon, and bee our head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees. 4 Say vnto them that are fearefull, Bee you strong, feare not: beholde, your God commeth with vengeance: euen God with a recompense, he will come and saue you.
  • Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The Spirit of the Lorde God is vpon mee, therefore hath the Lorde anoynted mee: hee hath sent mee to preache good tidings vnto the poore, to binde vp the broken hearted, to preach libertie to the captiues, and to them that are bound, the opening of the prison, 2 To preache the acceptable yeere of the Lorde, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourne, 3 To appoint vnto them that mourne in Zion, and to giue vnto them beautie for ashes, the oyle of ioye for mourning, the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of heauinesse, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
  • 2 Cor 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort, 4 Which comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.
  • Gen 14:14-17 : 14 When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he brought forth of them that were borne and brought vp in his house, three hundreth and eighteene, and pursued them vnto Dan. 15 Then he, and his seruants deuided them selues against them by night, & smote them and pursued them vnto Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus, 16 And he recouered all the substance, and also brought againe his brother Lot, & his goods, and the women also and the people. 17 After that he returned from the slaughter of Chedor-laomer, and of the Kings that were with him, came the King of Sodom foorth to meete him in the valley of Shaueh, which is the Kings dale.
  • Gen 41:40 : 40 Thou shalt be ouer mine house, & at thy word shall all my people be armed, onely in the kings throne will I be aboue thee.
  • 1 Thess 3:2-3 : 2 And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith, 3 That no man should be moued with these afflictions: for ye your selues knowe, that we are appointed thereunto.
  • Deut 33:5 : 5 Then he was among the righteous people, as King, when the heades of the people, and the tribes of Israel were assembled.
  • 2 Cor 7:5-7 : 5 For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on euery side, fightings without, and terrours within. 6 But God, that comforteth the abiect, comforted vs at the comming of Titus: 7 And not by his comming onely, but also by the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you, when he tolde vs your great desire, your mourning, your feruent minde to me warde, so that I reioyced much more.
  • 2 Sam 5:2 : 2 And in time past when Saul was our King, thou leddest Israel in and out: and the Lord hath sayde to thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captaine ouer Israel.
  • 1 Chr 13:1-4 : 1 And Dauid counselled with the captaines of thousandes and of hundreths, and with all the gouernours. 2 And Dauid said to all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good to you, and that it proceedeth of the Lorde our God, we will sende to and fro vnto our brethren, that are left in all the lande of Israel (for with them are the Priests and the Leuites in the cities and their suburbes) that they may assemble them selues vnto vs. 3 And we will bring againe the Arke of our God to vs: for we sought not vnto it in the dayes of Saul. 4 And all the Congregation answered, Let vs doe so: for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people.
  • Job 1:3 : 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 4:3-4 : 3 Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands. 4 Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
  • Job 31:37 : 37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

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  • 24 If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.

  • Job 29:11-17
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    11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

    12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

    13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

    14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

    15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

    16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

    17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

  • Ps 35:14-15
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    14 I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

    15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

  • Job 29:7-8
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    7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

    8 The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

  • 17 I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • 27 If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

  • 25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

  • Job 3:13-14
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    13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

    14 With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

  • 18 I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

  • 1 Chr 28:4-5
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    4 Yet as the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to be King ouer Israel for euer (for in Iudah woulde he chuse a prince, & of the house of Iudah is the house of my father, & among the sonnes of my father he delited in me to make me King ouer all Israel)

    5 So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel.

  • 28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

  • 1 So I turned and considered all the oppressions that are wrought vnder the sunne, and beholde the teares of the oppressed, and none comforteth them: and lo, the strength is of the hand of them that oppresse them, & none comforteth them.

  • 25 For I haue saciate the wearie soule, and I haue replenished euery sorowfull soule.

  • 25 If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

  • 11 And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

  • 4 Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • 18 I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, & restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.

  • 27 I haue set thee for a defence and fortres among my people, that thou maiest knowe and trie their waies.

  • 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 28 And spake kindly to him, & set his throne aboue the throne of the Kings that were with him in Babel,

  • 29 If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

  • 21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

  • 2 I was dumme & spake nothing: I kept silece euen from good, and my sorow was more stirred.

  • 15 What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

  • 28 For all my fathers house were but dead men before my lord the king, yet diddest thou set thy seruant among them that did eate at thine owne table: what right therefore haue I yet to crye any more vnto the king?

  • 16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • Job 31:36-37
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    36 Woulde not I take it vpon my shoulder, and binde it as a crowne vnto me?

    37 I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

  • 13 For they that remaine, haue dominio ouer the mightie of the people: the Lorde hath giuen me dominion ouer the strong.

  • 5 But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

  • 15 By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.

  • 16 But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.

  • 3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

  • 28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.

  • 10 Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

  • 9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.

  • 9 Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.

  • 35 Then come vp after him, that hee may come and sit vpon my throne: and hee shall bee King in my steade: for I haue appointed him to be prince ouer Israel and ouer Iudah.

  • 43 Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people, whom I haue not knowen, shal serue me.