Job 29:8

World English Bible (2000)

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

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  • Lev 19:32 : 32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.
  • Titus 3:1 : 1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • 1 Pet 2:17 : 17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
  • Prov 20:8 : 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
  • Rom 13:3-4 : 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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  • 32 "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

  • 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

  • 28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

  • 2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

  • 7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

  • 12 both young men and maidens; old men and children:

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  • 7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.

  • 8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

  • 9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

  • 6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

  • 8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

  • 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

  • 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

  • 4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

  • 34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

  • 30 The king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." He turned aside, and stood still.

  • 19 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

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  • 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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

  • 17 "You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don't be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

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  • 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

  • 8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

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  • 7 for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

  • 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

  • 22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • 5 They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

  • 30 Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

  • 29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.

  • 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: