Job 42:11
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11 Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money[a] and a gold ring.(A)
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- 42.11 Heb a qesitah
Job 2:11
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Job’s Three Friends
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to go and console and comfort him.(A)
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Proverbs 16:7
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7 When the ways of people please the Lord,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.(A)
Job 19:13-14
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13 “He has put my family far from me,
and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
Genesis 24:22
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22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels(A)
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Hebrews 12:12
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12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees(A)
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Hebrews 13:3
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3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them, those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.[a]
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- 13.3 Gk were in the body
1 Corinthians 12:26
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26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
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Romans 12:15
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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
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Isaiah 35:3-4
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3 Strengthen the weak hands
and make firm the feeble knees.(A)
4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Here is your God.
He will come with vengeance,
with terrible recompense.
He will come and save you.”(B)
Job 16:5
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5 I could encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
Job 4:4
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4 Your words have supported those who were stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.(A)
1 Samuel 10:27
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27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.[a](A)
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- 10.27 Q ms: MT lacks Now Nahash . . . entered Jabesh-gilead.
Joshua 24:32
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32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money;[a] it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.(A)
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- 24.32 Heb one hundred qesitah
Genesis 37:35
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35 All his sons and all his daughters sought to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father bewailed him.(A)
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Genesis 24:53
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53 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold and garments and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.(A)
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John 11:19
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19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.(A)
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Job 6:22-23
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22 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23 Or, ‘Save me from an opponent’s hand’?
Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?
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