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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 29

Chapter 29

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

continued

Heb. added to take up.

27:1

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

as in months

1:1-5 7:3

God

1:10 Psalms 37:28 Jude 1:1

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

candle

or, lamp.

18:6 21:17 Psalms 18:28 Proverbs 13:9 20:20 24:20

by his light

22:28 Psalms 4:6 23:4 27:1 84:11 Isaiah 2:4 John 8:12 12:46 Ephesians 5:8,14

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

the secret

1:10 15:8 Psalms 25:14 27:5 91:1 Proverbs 3:32 Colossians 3:3

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

the Almighty

23:3,8-10 Deuteronomy 33:27-29 Joshua 1:9 Judges 6:12,13 Psalms 30:7 43:2 44:8,9 Song of Solomon 2:4 3:1,2 Jeremiah 14:8 Matthew 9:15

my children

1:2-5 42:13-16 Psalms 127:3-5 128:3 Proverbs 17:6

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

I washed

20:17 Genesis 49:11 Deuteronomy 32:13 33:24 Psalms 81:16

me out

Heb. with me.

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Deuteronomy 16:18 21:19 Ruth 4:1,2,11 Zechariah 8:16

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

young men

Leviticus 19:32 Proverbs 16:31 20:8 Romans 13:3,4 Titus 3:1 1 Peter 5:5

the aged

Romans 13:7 1 Peter 2:17

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

refrained

4:2 7:11 Proverbs 10:19 James 1:19

laid

21:5 40:4 Judges 18:19 Proverbs 30:32

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

nobles held their peace

Heb. voice of the nobles was hid. their tongue.

Psalms 137:6 Ezekiel 3:26

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

the ear

31:20 Proverbs 29:2 Luke 4:22 11:27

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

I delivered

22:5-9 Nehemiah 5:2-13 Psalms 72:12 82:2-4 Proverbs 21:13 24:11,12 Jeremiah 22:16

the fatherless

Exodus 22:22-24 Deuteronomy 10:18 Psalms 68:5 James 1:27

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

The blessing

Deuteronomy 24:13 Acts 9:39-41 2 Corinthians 9:12-14 2 Timothy 1:16-18

ready

31:19 Deuteronomy 26:5 Proverbs 31:6-9 Isaiah 27:13

I caused

Deuteronomy 16:11 Nehemiah 8:10-12 Philemon 1:7

sing

Psalms 67:4 Isaiah 65:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

I put

Deuteronomy 24:13 Psalms 132:9 Isaiah 59:17 61:10 Romans 13:14 2 Corinthians 6:7 Ephesians 6:14 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Revelation 19:8

a diadem

Isaiah 28:5 62:3

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

eyes

Numbers 10:31 Matthew 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

a father

31:18 Esther 2:7 Psalms 68:5 Ephesians 5:1 James 1:27

the cause

Exodus 18:26 Deuteronomy 13:14 17:8-10 1 Kings 3:16-28 Proverbs 25:2 29:7

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

I brake

Psalms 3:7 58:8 Proverbs 30:14

jaws

Heb. jaw teeth, or grinders. and plucked. Heb. and cast.

1 Samuel 17:35 Psalms 124:3,6

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

I shall die

Psalms 30:6,7 Jeremiah 22:23 49:16 Obadiah 1:4 Habakkuk 2:9

multiply

5:26 42:16,17 Psalms 91:16

as the sand

Genesis 32:12 41:49

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

root

18:16 Psalms 1:3 Jeremiah 17:8 Hosea 14:5-7

spread out

Heb. opened.

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

glory

14 19:9 Genesis 45:13 Psalms 3:3

fresh

Heb. new. my bow.

Genesis 49:24

renewed

Heb. changed.

Psalms 103:5 Isaiah 40:31 2 Corinthians 4:16

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

gave ear

9,10 32:11,12

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

After my

32:15,16 33:31-33 Isaiah 52:15 Matthew 22:46

speech

Deuteronomy 32:2 Song of Solomon 4:11 Ezekiel 20:46 Amos 7:16 Micah 2:6 *marg:

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

as for the rain

Psalms 72:6

the latter rain

Hosea 6:3 Zechariah 10:1

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

they believed

Genesis 45:26 Psalms 126:1 Luke 24:41

the light

Psalms 4:6 89:15

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

chose out

Genesis 41:40 Judges 11:8 2 Samuel 5:2 1 Chronicles 13:1-4

dwelt

Genesis 14:14-17 Deuteronomy 33:5

one that

4:3,4 Isaiah 35:3,4 61:1-3 2 Corinthians 1:3,4 7:5-7 1 Thessalonians 3:2,3