Job 1:1 Cross References - LITV

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, his name was Job. And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and turning away from evil.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

²³ And Aram's sons were Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before me and be perfect;

¹² And He said, Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you are a God-fearer, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.

²⁰ And it happened after these things it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold! Milcah, she also, has borne sons to your brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz, his firstborn, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram,

²⁸ These were the sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

²¹ And you, you shall look out men of ability out of all the people, who fear God, men of truth, haters of unjust gain. And you place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

³ I pray to You, O Jehovah, please remember how I have walked always before your face in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem were 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 Jakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did this in all Judah, and did the good and the right and true before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began for the service of the house of God, and in the Law, and in the commandment, to seek his God with all his heart, he worked and prospered.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil?

³ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, fearing God, and turning away from evil? And he is still holding to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to swallow him for nothing.

¹¹ My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned; ¹² nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

²⁸ And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to turn from evil is understanding.

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look intently on a virgin? ² For what is the portion from God above? And what is the legacy from the Almighty on high? ³ Is it not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does He not see my ways and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or my foot has hurried to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in a just balance so that God may know my integrity. ⁷ If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands, ⁸ let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her. ¹¹ For that would be an evil scheme, and is iniquity for judges. ¹² For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root up all my gain. ¹³ If I despised the cause of my male slave or my slave-girl when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the belly make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld from the desire of the poor, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her. ¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² let my shoulder fall from the back, and let my arm be broken from the elbow. ²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my enemy, and I was excited when evil found him; ³⁰ also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; ³¹ if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat, ³² the stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler; ³³ if I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ then let me fear before a great multitude, and let the scorn of families frighten me and I will be silent, and not go out the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! See, my mark! Let the Almighty answer me, and let my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me. ³⁷ I would tell Him the number of my steps. Like a prince I would go near Him. ³⁸ If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire; ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and a weed instead of barley. The words of Job are finished.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride and loftiness, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

⁶ Iniquity is covered by mercy and truth, and in the fear of Jehovah, men turn aside from evil.

²⁰ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Askelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz, The cup also shall pass through to you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.

¹⁴ And though these three men were in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, by their righteousness they should deliver only their souls, declares the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they by their righteousness would deliver only their souls.

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

¹¹ Behold, we call those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord, "that the Lord is full of tender mercy and pity." Psa. 103:8

¹¹ Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it;