Job 1:1
I. The Prologue (1:1-2:13)
Job’s Good Life
1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Job 42:12-17
42:12 So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
42:13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch.
42:15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.
42:16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
42:17 And so Job died, old and full of days.
Proverbs 14:32
14:32 The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble,
but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.
Isaiah 32:17
32:17 Fairness will produce peace
and result in lasting security.
Isaiah 57:2
57:2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace;
they rest on their beds.
Luke 2:25-29
The Prophecy of Simeon
2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
2:26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
2:27 So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,
2:28 Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,
2:29 “Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.
Acts 7:59-60
7:59 They
continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
7:60 Then he fell
to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!”
When
he had said this, he died.
Acts 7:2
7:2 So he replied,
“Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather
Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
Acts 4:6-8
4:6 Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family.
4:7 After
making Peter and John
stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name
did you do this?”
4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,
replied,
“Rulers of the people and elders,
Acts 4:2
4:2 angry
because they were teaching the people and announcing
in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
Acts 1:14
1:14 All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.