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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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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Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
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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 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 29:8
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
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Deuteronomy 33:5
He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
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1 Kings 11:24
He gathered men to himself, and became captain over a troop, when David killed them of Zobah. They went to Damascus and lived there, and reigned in Damascus.
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Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
Isaiah 35:4
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
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Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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