Job 1:1 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹ There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

⁹ These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

²³ The sons of Aram: Us, and Hull, and Gether; and Mes.

¹ And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

¹² And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

²⁰ After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother. ²¹ Hus, the firstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,

²⁸ And Dison had sons: Hus and Aram.

²¹ And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Sem: Elam and Asur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Hus, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.

⁴² The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Zavan, and Jacan. The sons of Disan: Hus and Aran.

²⁰ So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, ²¹ In all the service of the house of the Lord according to the law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek his God with all his heart, and he did it and prospered.

⁸ And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?

³ And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

¹¹ My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it. ¹² I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

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

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. ² For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? ³ Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity? ⁴ Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit: ⁶ Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity. ⁷ If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands: ⁸ Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: ¹⁰ Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her. ¹¹ For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. ¹² It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. ¹³ If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me: ¹⁴ For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: ¹⁷ If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: ¹⁸ (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:) ¹⁹ If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: ²⁰ If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: ²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: ²² Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. ²³ For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear. ²⁴ If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: ²⁵ If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much. ²⁶ If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: ²⁷ And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with, my mouth: ²⁸ Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God. ²⁹ If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him. ³⁰ For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul. ³¹ If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? ³² The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller. ³³ If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom. ³⁴ If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door. ³⁵ Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, ³⁶ That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown? ³⁷ At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince. ³⁸ If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: ³⁹ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof: ⁴⁰ Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.

⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

²⁰ And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.

²¹ Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Hus: to thee also shall the cup come, thou shalt be made drunk, and naked.

¹⁴ And if these three men, Noe, Daniel, and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver their own souls by their justice, saith the Lord of hosts.

²⁰ And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in the midst thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter: but they shall only deliver their own souls by their justice.

⁶ And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

¹¹ Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

¹¹ Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it: