Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you [a]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and [b]shuns evil?”

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  1. Job 1:8 Lit. set your heart on
  2. Job 1:8 Lit. turns away from

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, (A)a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he (B)holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, (C)to [a]destroy him without cause.”

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  1. Job 2:3 Lit. consume

Job and His Family in Uz

There was a man (A)in the land of Uz, whose name was (B)Job; and that man was (C)blameless and upright, and one who (D)feared God and [a]shunned evil.

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  1. Job 1:1 Lit. turned away from

16 “Wash(A) yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
(B)Cease to do evil,

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13 (A)The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
(B)Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And (C)the perverse mouth I hate.

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25 (A)Now 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 after him did any arise like him.

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Not so with (A)My servant Moses;
(B)He is faithful in all (C)My house.
I speak with him (D)face to face,
Even (E)plainly,[a] and not in [b]dark sayings;
And he sees (F)the form of the Lord.
Why then (G)were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”

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  1. Numbers 12:8 appearing
  2. Numbers 12:8 riddles

11 (A)My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the (B)commandment of His lips;
(C)I have treasured the words of His mouth
More than my [a]necessary food.

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  1. Job 23:12 Lit. appointed portion

20 Behold, (A)God will not [a]cast away the blameless,
Nor will He uphold the evildoers.

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  1. Job 8:20 reject

15 But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but (A)I did not do so, because of the (B)fear of God.

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47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, (A)an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

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39 (A)Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, [a]“If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”

40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

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  1. Luke 23:39 NU Are You not the Christ? Save

The Servant of the Lord

42 “Behold! (A)My Servant whom I uphold,
My [a]Elect One in whom My soul (B)delights!
(C)I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

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  1. Isaiah 42:1 Chosen

27 Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell forevermore.

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Man’s Wickedness and God’s Perfections

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.

36 An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked:
(A)There is no fear of God before his eyes.

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14 (A)Depart from evil and do good;
(B)Seek peace and pursue it.

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23 I was also blameless [a]before Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.

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  1. Psalm 18:23 with

And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. Now therefore, take for yourselves (A)seven bulls and seven rams, (B)go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall (C)pray for you. For I will accept [a]him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

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  1. Job 42:8 Lit. his face

14 If He should set His heart on it,
If He should (A)gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath,

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Upright men are astonished at this,
And the innocent stirs himself up against the hypocrite.
Yet the righteous will hold to his (A)way,
And he who has (B)clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

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“I(A) am one mocked by his friends,
Who (B)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

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22 It is all one thing;
Therefore I say, (A)‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
23 If the scourge slays suddenly,
He laughs at the plight of the innocent.

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30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men (A)of the East and all (B)the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was (C)wiser than all men—(D)than Ethan the Ezrahite, (E)and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.

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Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law (A)which Moses My servant commanded you; (B)do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may [a]prosper wherever you go.

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  1. Joshua 1:7 have success or act wisely

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)

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