Job 1:8
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8 The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil.”(A)
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- 1.8 Heb the satan
Job 2:3
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3 The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.”(A)
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- 2.3 Heb the satan
Job 1:1
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Job and His Family
1 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.(A)
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Isaiah 1:16
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16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(A)
Proverbs 8:13
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13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.(A)
2 Kings 23:25
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25 Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.(A)
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Numbers 12:7-8
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7 Not so with my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.(A)
8 With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles,
and he beholds the form of the Lord.
“Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”(B)
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John 1:47
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47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”(A)
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Luke 23:39-40
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39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding[a] him and saying, “Are you not the Messiah?[b] Save yourself and us!”(A) 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
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Isaiah 42:1
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The Servant, a Light to the Nations
42 Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my spirit upon him;
he will bring forth justice to the nations.(A)
Psalm 89:20
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20 I have found my servant David;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;(A)
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
Psalm 37:27
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27 Depart from evil, and do good;
so you shall abide forever.(A)
Psalm 36:1
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Psalm 36
Human Wickedness and Divine Goodness
To the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.
1 Transgression speaks to the wicked
deep in their hearts;
there is no fear of God
before their eyes.(A)
Psalm 34:14
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14 Depart from evil, and do good;
seek peace, and pursue it.(A)
Psalm 18:23
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23 I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
Job 42:7-8
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Job’s Friends Are Humiliated
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.(A) 8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”(B)
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Job 34:14
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- 34.14 Heb his heart his spirit
Job 23:11-12
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11 My foot has held fast to his steps;
I have kept his way and have not turned aside.(A)
12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured his words in my bosom.[a](B)
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- 23.12 Gk: Heb words more than my daily bread
Job 17:8-9
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8 The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent stir themselves up against the godless.
9 Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.(A)
Job 12:4
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4 I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called upon God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.(A)
Job 9:22-23
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22 It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)
23 When disaster brings sudden death,
he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.(B)
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- 9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 8:20
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20 “See, God will not reject the blameless,
nor take the hand of evildoers.(A)
Nehemiah 5:15
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15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.(A)
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1 Kings 4:30-31
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30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.(A) 31 He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, children of Mahol; his fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.(B)
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