Job 29:5 Cross References

Job 29:5

5: The Almighty was still with me, and my children were around me.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine, flourishing within your home. And look at all those children! There they sit around your table as vigorous and healthy as young olive trees.

Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him.
Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hands.
How happy is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

I command you--be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

One night as I lay in bed, I yearned deeply for my lover, but he did not come.
So I said to myself, `I will get up now and roam the city, searching for him in all its streets and squares. But my search was in vain.

The eternal God is your refuge, and his everlasting arms are under you. He thrusts out the enemy before you; it is he who cries, `Destroy them!'
So Israel will live in safety, prosperous Jacob in security, in a land of grain and wine, while the heavens drop down dew.
How blessed you are, O Israel! Who else is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your protecting shield and your triumphant sword! Your enemies will bow low before you, and you will trample on their backs!"

Your favor, O LORD, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.

He had seven sons and three daughters.
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and he employed many servants. He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire area.
Every year when Job's sons had birthdays, they invited their brothers and sisters to join them for a celebration. On these occasions they would get together to eat and drink.
When these celebrations ended--and sometimes they lasted several days--Job would purify his children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said to himself, "Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular practice.

He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.
In all the land there were no other women as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers.
Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.

O Hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble! Why are you like a stranger to us? Why are you like someone passing through the land, stopping only for the night?

If only I knew where to find God, I would go to his throne and talk with him there.

Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged; parents are the pride of their children.

The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, "Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!"
"Sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn't they say, `The LORD brought us up out of Egypt'? But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites."

O God, we give glory to you all day long and constantly praise your name.
But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle.

"I go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him.
I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I turn to the south, but I cannot find him.
But he knows where I am going. And when he has tested me like gold in a fire, he will pronounce me innocent.

Jesus responded, "Should the wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Someday he will be taken from them, and then they will fast.

For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in darkness, oppressed by my enemies?

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