Job 1:10

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Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

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  • Ps 34:7 : 7 The LORD’s angel camps around the LORD’s loyal followers and delivers them.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 But I(the LORD says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing from the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,
  • Deut 28:2-6 : 2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
  • Deut 33:11 : 11 Bless, O LORD, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.
  • Deut 33:27 : 27 The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said,“Destroy!”
  • Gen 15:1 : 1 The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”
  • Gen 26:12 : 12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.
  • Gen 30:30 : 30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”
  • Gen 30:43 : 43 In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
  • Gen 39:5 : 5 From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the LORD was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.
  • Gen 49:25 : 25 because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the Sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.
  • Deut 7:13 : 13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
  • Ps 5:12 : 12 Certainly you reward the godly, LORD. Like a shield you protect them in your good favor.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
  • Ps 71:21 : 21 Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!
  • Ps 80:12 : 12 Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!
  • Isa 5:2 : 2 He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
  • Ps 128:1-4 : 1 A song of ascents. How blessed is every one of the LORD’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands! 2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table. 4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  • 1 Sam 25:16 : 16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

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    7 The LORD said to Satan,“Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

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    2 And the LORD said to Satan,“Where do you come from?” Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

    3 Then the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

    4 But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

    5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

    6 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”

  • 40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

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    21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”

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    9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

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  • 1 Job’s Reply to God’s Challenge Then the LORD answered Job:

  • 3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

  • 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

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    7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

    8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

  • 1 Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job replied:

  • 30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

  • 1 Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

  • 1 IV. Job’s Concluding Soliloquy(29:1-31:40)Job Recalls His Former Condition Then Job continued his speech:

  • 2 You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

  • 14 “Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

  • 10 So the LORD restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the LORD doubled all that had belonged to Job.

  • 13 So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

  • 6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident– who carry their god in their hands.

  • 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • 39 if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

  • 8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

  • 11 Bless, O LORD, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

  • 11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • 3 For you bring him rich blessings; you place a golden crown on his head.

  • 1 ¶ I. The Prologue(1:1-2:13)Job’s Good Life There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

  • 8 The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.

  • 1 Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

  • 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

  • 37 For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

  • 3 Then Job answered the LORD:

  • 2 What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 1 Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:

  • 5 Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • 1 Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:

  • 11 The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • 1 A Protest of Innocence And Job took up his discourse again:

  • 5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.