Job 1:10

New English Translation

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

Cross References

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”

Genesis 26:12

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 30:30

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

Genesis 30:43

In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

Genesis 39:5

From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the Lord was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.

Genesis 49:25

because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

Job 1:3

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

Job 29:2

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

Job 29:6

when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

Job 31:25

if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Psalm 107:38

He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.

Psalm 34:7

The Lord’s angel camps around the Lord’s loyal followers and delivers them.

Psalm 5:12

Certainly you reward the godly, Lord. Like a shield you protect them in your good favor.

Psalm 71:21

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!

Psalm 80:12

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

Psalm 90:17

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

Isaiah 5:2

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

Isaiah 5:5

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

Zechariah 2:5

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”

Zechariah 2:8

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

Deuteronomy 33:11

Bless, O Lord, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

Deuteronomy 33:27

The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said, “Destroy!”

Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

1 Peter 1:5

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Samuel 25:16

Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.