Job 1:10

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Summary

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.

An hedge

About

Thou hast blessed

Substance

Genesis 30:43

General references

Genesis 13:2

1 Samuel 30:19

Mark 5:12

Bible References

An hedge

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

About

And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

Thou hast blessed

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.

He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

Substance

So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

General references

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

And they said to him, Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them.