Job 29:5

World English Bible (2000)

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

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  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.
  • Song 2:4 : 4 He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
  • Song 3:1-2 : 1 By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. 2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
  • Ps 30:7 : 7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
  • Deut 33:27-29 : 27 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, 'Destroy!' 28 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. 29 You are happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you. You shall tread on their high places."
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."
  • Judg 6:12-13 : 12 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!" 13 Gideon said to him, "Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, 'Didn't Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian."
  • Job 1:2-5 : 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. 4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.
  • Job 23:3 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
  • Job 23:8-9 : 8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him; 9 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him. 10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
  • Job 42:13-16 : 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • Ps 44:8-9 : 8 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah. 9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
  • Matt 9:15 : 15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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  • Prov 8:29-31
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    29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

    30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

    31 Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

  • Prov 8:25-27
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    25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

    26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

    27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

  • 5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

  • 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

  • Job 22:25-26
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    25 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

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  • 3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

  • 3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

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    5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

    6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

    7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

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

    26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • 3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • Job 23:16-17
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    16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • 23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • 13 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

  • 5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.

  • 15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • 12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

  • 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

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    15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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  • 10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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    10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

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    15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

  • 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.