Job 29:5
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5 when the Almighty[a] was still with me,
when my children were around me,
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- 29.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Psalm 128:3
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3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.(A)
Psalm 127:3-5
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3 Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.(A)
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the sons of one’s youth.
5 Happy is the man who has
his quiver full of them.
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.(B)
Psalm 30:7
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7 By your favor, O Lord,
you had established me as a strong mountain;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.(A)
Joshua 1:9
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9 I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 33:27-29
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27 He subdues the ancient gods,[a]
shatters[b] the forces of old;[c]
he drove out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy!’(A)
28 So Israel lives in safety,
untroubled is Jacob’s abode[d]
in a land of grain and wine,
where the heavens drop down dew.(B)
29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord,
the shield of your help
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
but you shall tread on their backs.”(C)
Matthew 9:15
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15 And Jesus said to them, “The wedding attendants cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.(A)
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Jeremiah 14:8
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8 O hope of Israel,
its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler turning aside for the night?(A)
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of children is their parents.(A)
Psalm 44:8-9
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8 In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah(A)
9 Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
and have not gone out with our armies.(B)
Psalm 43:2
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2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?(A)
Job 42:13-16
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13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.(A) 14 He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.(B)
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Job 23:8-10
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8 “If I go forward, he is not there;
or backward, I cannot perceive him;(A)
9 on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him;
I turn[a] to the right, but I cannot see him.
10 But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.(B)
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- 23.9 Syr Vg: Heb he turns
Job 23:3
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3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him,
that I might come even to his dwelling!(A)
Job 1:2-5
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2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.(A) 3 He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.(B) 4 His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another’s houses in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all, for Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This is what Job always did.(C)
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Judges 6:12-13
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12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.”(A) 13 Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”(B)
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