Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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.