Job 1:1 Cross References - Brenton

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name was Job; and than man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

^{9 (6:10)} And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

²³ And sons of Aram, Uz, and Ul, and Gater, and Mosoch.

¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless.

¹² And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the child, neither do anything to him, for now I know that thou fearest God, and for my sake thou hast not spared thy beloved son.

²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was reported to Abraam, saying, Behold, Melcha herself too has born sons to Nachor thy brother, ²¹ Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, and Chazad, and

²⁸ And these are the sons of Rison; Hos, and Aran.

²¹ And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

³ Lord, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Sem, Aelam, and Assur,

⁴² And the sons of Hosar, Balaam, and Zucam, and Acan: the sons of Disan, Os, and Aran.

²⁰ And Ezekias did so through all Juda, and did that which was good and right before the Lord his God. ²¹ And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.

⁸ And the Lord said to him, Hast thou diligently considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a man blameless, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

³ And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, that there is none of men upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas thou has told me to destroy his substance without cause?

¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

²⁸ And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin. ² Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest? ³ Alas! destruction to the unrighteous, and rejection to them that do iniquity. ⁴ Will he not see my way, and number all my steps? ⁵ But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit: ⁶ (for I am weighed in a just balance, and the Lord knows my innocence:) ⁷ if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let others eat; and let me be uprooted on the earth. ⁹ If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors; ¹⁰ then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low. ¹¹ For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife. ¹² For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. ¹³ And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer? ¹⁵ Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb. ¹⁶ But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail. ¹⁷ And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan; ¹⁸ (for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.) ¹⁹ And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; ²⁰ and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his: ²² let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow. ²³ For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden. ²⁴ If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone; ²⁵ and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures: ²⁶ (do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:) ²⁷ and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it: ²⁸ let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High. ²⁹ And if too I was glad at the fall of mine enemies, and mine heart said, Aha! ³⁰ let then mine ear hear my curse, and let me be a byword among my people in my affliction. ³¹ And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind: ³² for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:) ³³ or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin; ³⁴ (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom: ³⁵ (Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one, ³⁶ I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it. ³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor: ³⁸ If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together; ³⁹ and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him: ⁴⁰ then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, and a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.

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^{20 (32:20)} and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus,

²¹ CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.

¹⁴ And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, saith the Lord.

²⁰ and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.