Job 29:5

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when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

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  • Ps 128:3 : 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.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward. 4 Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand. 5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.
  • Song 2:4 : 4 The Banquet Hall for the Love-SickThe Beloved about Her Lover: He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 The Lost Lover is FoundThe Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared. 2 “I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved.” I searched for him but I did not find him.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
  • Deut 33:27-29 : 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!” 28 Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew. 29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 I repeat, be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, for I, the LORD your God, am with you in all you do.”
  • Judg 6:12-13 : 12 The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!” 13 Gideon said to him,“Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,‘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 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 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. 4 Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 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.
  • Job 23:3 : 3 O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him. 9 In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him. 10 But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.
  • Job 42:13-16 : 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?
  • Ps 44:8-9 : 8 In God we boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name.(Selah) 9 But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 Jesus said to them,“The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

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    30 then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

    31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

  • Prov 8:25-27
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    25 before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,

    26 before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.

    27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

  • 5 But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

  • 11 Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

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    25 then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.

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  • 3 When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

  • 3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

  • 13 Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • 20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

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    6 Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

    7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

  • Job 31:25-26
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    25 if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

    26 if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

  • 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

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    16 Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

    17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • 23 I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

  • 13 “With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

  • 5 My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

  • 15 If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • 12 As for me, you uphold me because of my integrity; you allow me permanent access to your presence.

  • 14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • 14 For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • 15 I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;

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    15 or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

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  • 10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

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    15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

  • 23 From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.