Job 1:1 Cross References - MKJV

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned aside from evil.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

²³ And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash,

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect.

¹² And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.

²⁰ And it happened after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold Milcah! She also has borne children to your brother Nahor: ²¹ Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

²⁸ The sons of Dishan were these: Uz and Aran.

²¹ And you shall look out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain. And place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

³ I pray, O Jehovah, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a sincere heart, and have done good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

⁴² The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and did the good and the right and the true before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart against My servant Job, because there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?

³ And Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? And still he is keeping hold of his integrity, although you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

¹¹ My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away; ¹² nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

²⁸ And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin? ² For what is the portion from God above? And what is the inheritance from the Almighty on high? ³ Is not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity? ⁴ Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps? ⁵ If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit, ⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness. ⁷ If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands; ⁸ then let me sow, and let another eat; and let my harvests be rooted out. ⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, ¹⁰ then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her. ¹¹ For that would be an evil purpose; yea, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges. ¹² For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root out all my gain. ¹³ If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when He calls me to account, what shall I answer Him? ¹⁵ Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One shape us in the womb? ¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it, ¹⁸ for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her; ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate; ²² then let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken from the elbow. ²³ For trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do anything because of His highness. ²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much; ²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness, ²⁷ and my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied the God above. ²⁹ If I rejoiced at the ruin of my hater, and I was excited when evil found him; ³⁰ also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse; ³¹ if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat? ³² The stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler. ³³ If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, ³⁴ then let me tremble before a great multitude, and be terrified by the scorn of families; and I will be silent and not go out the door. ³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, and bind it like crowns to me. ³⁷ I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince I would go near Him. ³⁸ If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire, ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth.

⁶ By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of Jehovah men turn away from evil.

²⁰ and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the rest of Ashdod;

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz. The cup also shall pass through unto you; you shall be drunken and stripped naked.

¹⁴ And though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Jehovah.

²⁰ though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter. They shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.

¹¹ Let him turn aside from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.