Job 29:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ I chose their way [for them] and sat as [their] chief, and dwelt like a king among his soldiers, like one who comforts mourners.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

Common English Bible

²⁵ I decided their path, sat as chief. I lived like a king with his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.

Job 29:25 Cross References

Genesis 41:40

you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”

2 Samuel 5:2

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’ ”

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

Job 16:5

I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

Job 31:37

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Deuteronomy 33:5

Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

Judges 11:8

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”