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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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  • 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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