Job 29:25

WEB

²⁵I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

KJV

²⁵I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

BSB

²⁵I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

FBV

²⁵^[+] I decided the way forward as their leader, living like a king among his soldiers, and when they were sad I comforted them.”

Extra References

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Isaiah 35:3-4

³Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm. ⁴Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

Judges 11:8

⁸The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

1 Thessalonians 3:2-3

²and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, ³that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Genesis 41:40

⁴⁰You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

Isaiah 61:1-3

¹The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,²^[+] to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, ³to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

Genesis 14:14-17

¹⁴When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan. ¹⁵He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. ¹⁶He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

¹⁷The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

2 Samuel 5:2

²In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. The LORD said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”

1 Chronicles 13:1-4

¹David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. ²David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. ³Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

⁴All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

Deuteronomy 33:5

⁵He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.