Job 31:26

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

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  • Ezek 8:16 : 16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house. Right there at the entrance to the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the LORD’s temple, facing east– they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
  • Deut 17:3 : 3 by serving other gods and worshiping them– the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.
  • 2 Kgs 23:5 : 5 He eliminated the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem.(They offered sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)
  • 2 Kgs 23:11 : 11 He removed from the entrance to the LORD’s temple the statues of horses that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god.(They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
  • Jer 44:17 : 17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
  • Deut 11:16 : 16 Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place, 4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?
  • Gen 1:16-18 : 16 God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. 17 God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, 18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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  • Job 31:27
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    27so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

  • Job 29:2-4
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    2“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

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  • Eccl 11:7-8
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    7Life Should Be Enjoyed Because Death is Inevitable Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.

    8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

  • Job 31:4-7
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    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

    5If I have walked in falsehood, and if my foot has hastened to deceit–

    6let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

    7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16Limitations of Human Wisdom When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth– even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night–

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

  • Job 25:5
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    5If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

  • Deut 33:14
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    14with the harvest produced by the daylight and by the moonlight;

  • Eccl 2:13-14
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    13I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

    14The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13Most People Are Not Receptive to Wise Counsel This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me:

  • Job 30:26
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    26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

  • Job 29:11
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    11Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

  • Jer 31:26
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    26Then they will say,‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’”

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10I did not restrain myself from getting whatever I wanted; I did not deny myself anything that would bring me pleasure. So all my accomplishments gave me joy; this was my reward for all my effort.

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    7Labor Motivated by Greed So I again considered another futile thing on earth:

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 37:21
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    21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

  • Prov 8:31
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    31rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

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    24If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

  • Job 31:21
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    21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

  • Job 29:6-7
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    6when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

    7When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

  • Job 31:37
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    37I would give him an accounting of my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.

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  • Prov 24:32
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    32Then I scrutinized it. I was putting my mind to it– I saw; I took in a lesson:

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!

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    28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.

  • Job 31:19
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    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

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    5though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man–

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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    6The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.