Job 29:25

²³ They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

²⁴ If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

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

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ÅB: Fikk jeg lyst til å gå til dem, da satt jeg der som høvding og tronte som en konge i sin krigerskare, lik en som trøster de sørgende.
OTB: Jeg bestemte deres kurs og satt som leder,
Og bodde som en konge blant troppene,
Som en som trøstet de sørgende.
B1930: Fikk jeg lyst til å gå til dem, da satt jeg der som høvding og tronte som en konge i sin krigerskare, lik en som trøster de sørgende.

BSB: I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
KJV: I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
WEB: I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
ASV: I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
DARBY: I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.
BLB: I chose their path and sat [as] chief, and I dwelt as a king with [his] band, like one who comforts the mourners.

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2 Corinthians 1:3–4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
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Isaiah 35:3–4
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
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Genesis 14:14–17
And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Isaiah 61:1–3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
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1 Thessalonians 3:2–3
We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
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Genesis 41:40
You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
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Judges 11:8
They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
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2 Corinthians 7:5–7
For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
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