Job 1:10

You have always [RHQ] protected [MET] him and his family and everything that he owns. You have made him very prosperous/rich. He has livestock all over this land.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

In Context

9Satan replied to Yahweh, “ What you say is true, but Job greatly respects you only because of what you have done for him [RHQ].

11But if you take away [MTY] everything that he has, he will curse you openly. [IDM]”

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Cross References

Genesis 26:12Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.

Genesis 30:43As a result, Jacob became very rich. He owned many large flocks of sheep and goats, and many male and female slaves, and many camels and donkeys.

Genesis 49:25God, the one whom I worship, will help your descendants. God Almighty will bless them by sending them rain from the sky and by giving them water from deep/far below the ground. He will give them many cattle and children [MET] (OR, and their cattle will have many offspring).

Deuteronomy 28:2If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:

Deuteronomy 33:27God, who lives forever, is the one who ◄gives you refuge/protects you►; it is as though he puts his everlasting arms under you to support you. He will expel your enemies while you advance; he has told you to destroy all of them.

Job 1:3He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 1,000 oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was the richest man in all the area east of the Jordan River.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13

Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →

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