Job 29:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I chose what they should do and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Cross References

Genesis 41:40

You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

2 Samuel 5:2

For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The Lord said to you, ‘It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.’ ”

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job 16:5

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.

Job 31:37

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Deuteronomy 33:5

There arose a king in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, the united tribes of Israel.

Judges 11:8

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Nevertheless, we have now turned back to you, so that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites and become head over us, over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”