Job 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord said to the satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil.”

Cross References

2 Kings 23:25

Before him there had been no king who turned to the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, his whole being, and his whole strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses; nor did any king like him arise after him.

Nehemiah 5:15

The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then, too, their attendants oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not do this.

Job 1:1

In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil.

Job 12:4

I have become the sport of my neighbors: “The one whom God answers when he calls upon him, The just, the perfect man,” is a laughingstock;

Job 2:1

One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the satan also came with them.

Job 2:3

The Lord said to the satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil. He still holds fast to his innocence although you incited me against him to ruin him for nothing.”

Job 34:14

If he were to set his mind to it, gather to himself his spirit and breath,

Job 8:20

Behold, God will not cast away the upright; neither will he take the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 18:23

For his laws were all before me, his decrees I did not cast aside.

Psalm 34:14

Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies.

Psalm 36:1

For the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.

Psalm 37:27

Turn from evil and do good, that you may be settled forever.

Psalm 84:11

Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.

Psalm 89:20

Then you spoke in vision; to your faithful ones you said: “I have set a leader over the warriors; I have raised up a chosen one from the people.

Proverbs 8:13

[The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil;] Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil;

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Upon him I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Ezekiel 40:4

The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen intently. Pay strict attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Then you must tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Numbers 12:3

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than anyone else on earth.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in him.”

Joshua 1:2

Moses my servant is dead. So now, you and the whole people with you, prepare to cross the Jordan to the land that I will give the Israelites.

Joshua 1:7

Only be strong and steadfast, being careful to observe the entire law which Moses my servant enjoined on you. Do not swerve from it either to the right or to the left, that you may succeed wherever you go.