Ben Sira 49:9

9 For God also mentioned Job who held fast to all the ways of justice.

Ben Sira 49:9 In-Context

7 For they had mistreated him, who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet, to pluck up and ruin and destroy, and likewise to build and to plant.
8 It was Ezekiel who saw the vision of glory, which God showed him above the chariot of the cherubim.
9 For God also mentioned Job who held fast to all the ways of justice.
10 May the bones of the Twelve Prophets send forth new life from where they lie, for they comforted the people of Jacob and delivered them with confident hope.
11 How shall we magnify Zerubbabel? He was like a signet ring on the right hand,

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Gk [he]
  • [b]. Heb Compare Syr: Meaning of Gk uncertain
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