So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and [a]sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning (A)and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and (B)cursed[b] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

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  1. Job 1:5 consecrate
  2. Job 1:5 Lit. blessed, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:11; 2:5, 9

When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified.(A) Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering(B) for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned(C) and cursed God(D) in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

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11 (A)But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely (B)curse[a] You to Your face!”

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  1. Job 1:11 Lit. bless, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:5

11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has,(A) and he will surely curse you to your face.”(B)

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22 (A)In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.

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22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.(A)

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21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and (A)curse [a]their king and their God, and look upward.

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  1. Isaiah 8:21 Or by their king and by their God

21 Distressed and hungry,(A) they will roam through the land;(B) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(C) their king and their God.

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