Job 29:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Psalm 67:4

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

Proverbs 11:26

The people curse those who hold back grain, but a blessing is on the head of those who sell it.

Isaiah 27:13

And on that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 65:14

my servants shall sing with gladness of heart, but you shall cry out in pain of heart and shall wail in anguish of spirit.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Deuteronomy 24:13

You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 26:5

you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.

Philemon 1:7

I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.

Ruth 2:20

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest kin.”