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Job 29:5 Cross-References
Explore 17 cross-references for Job 29:5 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 29 verse 5 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;”
Job 29:5 (KJV)
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Commentary on Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me—the divine name שַׁדַּי (Shaddai, Almighty) appears 31 times in Job (more than the rest of the Old Testament combined), emphasizing God's power and sovereignty. The phrase was yet with me uses עִמָּדִי (immadi, with me), indicating intimate presence. Job laments God's felt absence—not theological denial of omnipresence but experiential loss of conscious fellowship. When my children were about me uses סְבִיבוֹתַי (sevivotay, around me/surrounding me)—his children encircled him like a protective hedge, the same word used in 1:10 where Satan complains God hedged ...
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Cross-References for Job 29:5
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“in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants”
“children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”
“He brought me to the banqueting house”
“neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
“Yahweh”
“I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him”
“and said”
“Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!”
“Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.,And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.,,,,,,,,”
“For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”