Job 29:2 Cross References - NSB

² »Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

¹ A man named Job lived in Uz. He was a man of integrity! He was decent, he respected God, and he stayed away from evil. ² He had seven sons and three daughters. ³ He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand head of cattle, and five hundred donkeys. He also had a large number of servants. In fact he was the greatest (richest) of all the Orientals in the East! ⁴ Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast. They invited many others to come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them. ⁵ The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

¹⁰ »You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does. You have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.

³ »I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.

²⁸ Jehovah loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be destroyed.

²⁸ »I watched over them to uproot them and tear them down, to ruin and hurt them. Now I will watch over them to build them up. I will plant them,« says Jehovah.

¹ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: