Job 29:25 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁵ I chose the way for them, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a sovereign in the army, 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first; and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

Job 29:25 Cross References

Genesis 41:40

Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss – only in the throne I am greater than you.

2 Samuel 5:2

“Formerly, when Sha’ul was sovereign over us, you were the one who led Yisra’ĕl out and brought them in. And יהוה said to you, ‘Shepherd My people Yisra’ĕl, and be ruler over Yisra’ĕl.’ ”

Job 1:3

And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large body of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job 16:5

I might strengthen you with my mouth, and my moving lips might bring relief.

Job 29:24

I smiled at those who did not believe, and the light of my face they did not dim.

Job 31:37

I would declare to Him the number of my steps – I would approach Him like a prince.

Deuteronomy 33:5

And He was Sovereign in Yeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, the tribes of Yisra’ĕl.

Judges 11:8

And the elders of Gil‛aḏ said to Yiphtaḥ, “That is the reason we have turned to you, that you shall go with us and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gil‛aḏ.”