Job 29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
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Job 29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
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Job 29:1
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Job 29:3
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job 29:4
as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
Job 29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
Job 29:6
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
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Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
Psalms 127:5
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.
Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
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Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”
Genesis 24:67
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Proverbs 31:28
Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
Micah 4:4
But every man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree. No one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
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Job 1:19
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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