Job 29:8-18

8 the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;
9 the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11 Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
12 because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
13 The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.
14 I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.
18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

Cross References 22

  • 1. 1 Timothy 5:1
  • 2. S Leviticus 19:32
  • 3. ver 21; Job 31:21
  • 4. S Judges 18:19; Job 40:4; Proverbs 30:32; Job 21:5
  • 5. ver 22
  • 6. Psalms 137:6
  • 7. S Job 4:4; Hebrews 11:4
  • 8. S Job 24:4
  • 9. S Deuteronomy 24:17; Job 31:17,21
  • 10. Psalms 72:12; Proverbs 21:13
  • 11. Job 31:20
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 10:18; S Job 22:9
  • 13. S 2 Samuel 8:15; S Job 27:6; Psalms 132:9; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:10; Ephesians 4:24; Ephesians 6:14
  • 14. S Job 19:9
  • 15. Numbers 10:31
  • 16. S Job 4:4
  • 17. S Job 24:4; Proverbs 29:7
  • 18. Exodus 18:26
  • 19. S Job 4:4; Proverbs 22:22-23
  • 20. Job 24:9
  • 21. S Job 4:10,11; S Psalms 3:7
  • 22. Psalms 1:1-3; Psalms 15:5; Psalms 16:8; Psalms 30:6; Psalms 62:2; Psalms 139:18; Proverbs 3:1-2
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