Job 29:8
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 29:8 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 29:8 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 29:8 — KJV
“The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.”
— Job 29:8 (KJV)
Job 29:8 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 29:8
“When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.”
Shares key themes with Job 29:8: men, saw, hid
“And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.”
Shares key themes with Job 29:8: men, saw, hid
“And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,”
Shares key themes with Job 29:8: men, saw, stood
“When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. wedge: Heb. tongue”
Shares key themes with Job 29:8: men, saw, hid
“And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.”
Shares key themes with Job 29:8: men, themselves, aged
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