Job 29:5 Cross References - Coverdale

⁵ when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me:

²⁷ that is the dwellynge of God from the beginnynge, and vnder the armes of the worlde. And he shal dryue out thyne enemye before the, and saye: Be destroyed. ²⁸ And Israel shall dwell safe alone. The eye of Iacob shalbe vpon ye londe where corne and wine is, heauen also shal droppe with dewe. ²⁹ Happye art thou Israel, who is lyke vnto the? O thou people yt art saued by the LORDE, which is thy helpe, shylde, and the swerde of thy glorye. Thyne enemies shal pyne awaye, and thou shalt treade vpon the height of them.

⁹ Lo, I haue commaunded the to be stronge and bolde. Feare not, and be not afrayed: for the LORDE thy God is with ye, whither so euer thou goest.

¹² Then appeared vnto him the angell of ye LORDE, and sayde vnto him: The LORDE with ye thou mightie giaunte. ¹³ But Gedeon sayde vnto him: Syr, yf the LORDE be wt vs, wherfore is all this then happened vnto vs? And where are all the wonders, which oure fathers tolde vs, & sayde: The LORDE brought vs out of Egipte? But now hath the LORDE forsaken vs, and delyuered vs in to the hande of the Madianites.

² This man had vij. sonnes, and iij. doughters. ³ His substaunce was vij. M. shepe, iij.M. camels, v.C. yock of oxen, v.C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so yt he was one of the most principall men amoge all them of the east countre. ⁴ His sonnes now wente on euery man, and made banckettes: one daye in one house, another daye in another, and sent for their iij. sisters, to eate & drinke with them. ⁵ So when they had passed ouer the tyme of their banckettinge rounde aboute, Iob sent for them, and clensed them agayne, stode vp early, and offred for euery one a bretofferinge. For Iob thought thus: peraduenture my sonnes haue done some offence, and haue bene vnthankfull to God in their hertes. And thus dyd Iob euery daye.

³ O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate,

⁸ For though I go before, I fynde him not: yf I come behynde, I ca get no knowlege of him: ⁹ Yf I go on the left syde to pondre his workes, I can not atteyne vnto them: Agayne, yf I go on the right syde, he hydeth himself, yt I can not se him. ¹⁰ But as for my waye, he knoweth it: & trieth me as ye golde in ye fyre.

¹³ He had children also: vij. sonnes and iij. doughters. ¹⁴ The first he called Daye, the seconde, pouerte: the thirde, All plenteousnes. ¹⁵ In all the londe were none founde so fayre, as the doughters of Iob, & their father gaue them enheritaunce amonge their brethren. ¹⁶ After this lyued Iob xl. yeares, so that he sawe his children, & his childers children vnto the fourth generacion.

⁷ But as soone as thou turnedest thy face fro me, I was brought in feare.

² For thou (o God) art my stregth: why hast thou shot me from the? Why go I then so heuely, whyle the enemie oppresseth me?

⁸ But it is thou that sauest vs fro oure enemies, and puttest them to confucion that hate vs. ⁹ We will allwaye make oure boast of God, and prayse thy name for euer.

³ It is but lost labour that ye ryse vp early, and take no rest, but eate the bred of carefulnesse: for loke to whom it pleaseth him, he geueth it in slepe. ⁴ Lo, children and ye frute of the wombe are an heretage and gift, that cometh of the LORDE. ⁵ Like as the arowes in the hode of the giaute, eue so are the yonge childre. Happie is the ma, yt hath his quyuer full of them: they shal not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

³ Thy wife shalbe as a frutefull vyne vpon the walles of thy house.

⁶ Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honor of the children.

⁴ He bryngeth me in to his wyne seller, and loueth me specially well.

¹ By night in my bedd, I sought him, whom my soule loueth: yee diligently sought I him, but I founde him not. ² I wil get vp (thought I) and go aboute the cite: vpon the market and in all ye stretes will I seke him whom my soule loueth, but whan I sought him, I founde him not.

⁸ For thou art the comforte & helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the Londe, and as one that goeth ouer the felde, ad cometh in only to remayne for a night?

¹⁵ And Iesus sayde vnto the: Can the weddynge chyldre mourne as loge as the bridegrome is with them? The tyme will come, when the bridegrome shalbe taken from them, and the shall they fast.