thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Job 29:25 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I chose out their way, and sat chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I chose their way [for them] and sat as [their] chief, and dwelt like a king among his soldiers, like one who comforts mourners. American Standard Version (1901) I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners. Common English Bible I decided their path, sat as chief. I lived like a king with his troops, like one who comforts mourners. Catholic Public Domain Version If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first; and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned. |
thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
And he was king in Jesh´urun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
And the elders of Gil´e-ad said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gil´e-ad.