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Job's Character And Greatness

² He had seven sons and three daughters. ³ His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east. ⁴ His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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Job 29:25

I directed their course and presided as chief.
I lived as a king among his troops,
like one who comforts those who mourn.

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Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Qedemites came and attacked them.

Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Genesis 12:5

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 12:16

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

Genesis 13:6

But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

Genesis 25:6

And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

Genesis 29:1

Jacob resumed his journey and went to the eastern country.

Genesis 34:23

Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.”

Numbers 23:7

Balaam proclaimed his poem:

Balak brought me from Aram;
the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:
“Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel!”

Numbers 31:32-34

The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled:

675,000 sheep and goats,

Judges 6:5

For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to waste it.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the Qedemites had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 8:10

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about 15,000 men, who were all those left of the entire army of the Qedemites. Those who had been killed were 120,000 warriors.

1 Samuel 25:2

A man in Maon had a business in Carmel; he was a very rich man with 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

2 Kings 3:4

King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams,

2 Chronicles 26:10

Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.

2 Chronicles 32:29

He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him abundant possessions.

Job 29:9-10

City officials stopped talking
and covered their mouths with their hands.

Proverbs 10:22

The Lord’s blessing enriches,
and struggle adds nothing to it.