Job 29:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

If I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

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  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.
  • Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
  • Ps 126:1 : 1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
  • Luke 24:41 : 41 And while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, he said to them, Do you have any food here?
  • Gen 45:26 : 26 And told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart stood still, for he did not believe them.

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    22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell gently upon them.

    23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the latter rain.

  • 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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    14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.

    15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

    16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;

  • 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • 3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

  • 25 I also have become a reproach to them; when they look upon me, they shake their heads.

  • Job 31:25-26
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    25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

    26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

  • 5 They looked to him and were radiant: and their faces were not ashamed.

  • 4 I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

  • 10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • 14 I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • 17 I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 16 For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • 20 My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

  • 11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me;

  • 21 Till He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

  • 18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

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    4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 19 The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

  • 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

  • 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.

  • 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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  • 10 So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

  • 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!

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  • 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

  • 19 Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

  • 8 But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.

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    6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

  • 25 And if it is not so, now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?

  • 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • 24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • 16 My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;