Job’s Former Blessings
Job 29:5
In 11 translations
- BSB
- when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
- KJV
- When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
- WEB
- when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
- ASV
- When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
- LSV
- When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Around me—my young ones,
- YLT
- When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me — my young ones,
- DBY
- When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
- DRC
- When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
- GNV
- When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.
- JPS
- When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
- LXXE
- When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- בְּע֣וֹד שַׁ֭דַּי עִמָּדִ֑י סְבִ֖יבוֹתַ֣י נְעָרָֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὅτε ἤμην ὑλώδης λίαν, κύκλῳ δέ μου οἱ παῖδες·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Psalms 127:3–5Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will…
- Deuteronomy 33:27–29The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’ So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled…
- Psalms 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
- Song of Songs 3:1–2On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him. I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- Joshua 1:9Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
- Song of Songs 2:4He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.
- Job 1:2–5He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East. Job’s…
- Job 42:13–16And he also had seven sons and three daughters. He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch. No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their…
- Jeremiah 14:8O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Matthew 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
- Job 23:8–10If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him. When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him. Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has…
- Judges 6:12–13And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His…
- Psalms 44:8–9In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
- Job 23:3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
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