Job 29:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Common English Bible

¹³ The blessing of the perishing reached me; I made the widow’s heart sing;

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.

Job 29:13 Cross References

Job 22:9

Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Psalm 67:4

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: For thou shalt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. Selah

Proverbs 11:26

He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Isaiah 27:13

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 65:14

behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

Deuteronomy 16:11

and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 24:13

thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Philemon 1:7

For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

Ruth 2:20

And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.