Job 1:1 Cross References - Darby

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.

⁹ This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty ?God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

¹² And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], from me.

²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

²⁸ -- These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²¹ But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [them] over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,

³ Ah! Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

⁴² -- The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, [and] Jaakan. -- The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil?

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.

¹¹ My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside. ¹² Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

²⁸ And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid? ² For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit, ⁶ (Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;) ⁷ If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands; ⁸ Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour`s door, <sup>10</sup> Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. <sup>11</sup> For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges: <sup>12</sup> For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. <sup>13</sup> If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me, <sup>14</sup> What then should I do when ?God riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him? <sup>15</sup> Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb? <sup>16</sup> If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; <sup>17</sup> Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof, <sup>18</sup> (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother`s womb;) ¹⁹ If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering; ²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: ²² [Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone! ²³ For calamity from ?God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence! ²⁵ If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, ²⁷ And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand: ²⁸ This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the ?God who is above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him; ³⁰ (Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;) ³¹ If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? -- ³² The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway. ³³ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ... ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation! ³⁶ Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown; ³⁷ I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him. ³⁸ If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together; ³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: ⁴⁰ Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

⁶ By loving-kindness and truth iniquity is atoned for; and by the fear of Jehovah [men] depart from evil.

²⁰ and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

¹⁴ though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, should be in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter: they should [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

⁶ And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful.

¹¹ And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;