Job 29:24

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 4:6 : 6 ¶ [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
  • Ps 89:15 : 15 ¶ Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 ¶ A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, ‹Have ye here any meat?›
  • Gen 45:26 : 26 And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

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