Job 29:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Job 29:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 126:1
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psalms 89:15
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 4:6
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Genesis 45:26
And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
Luke 24:41
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

That which crowned Job’s prosperity was the pleasing prospect he had of the continuance of it. Though he knew, in general, that he was liable to trouble, and therefore was not secure (Job 3:26; I was not in safety, neither had I rest), yet he had no particular occasion for fear, but as much reason as ever any man had to count upon the lengthening out of his tranquility. I. See here what his though…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. When I relaxed from my wonted gravity (a virtue much esteemed in the East) and smiled, they could hardly credit it; and yet, notwithstanding my condescension, they did not cast aside reverence for my gravity. But the parallelism is better in Umbreit’s translation, “I smiled kindly on those who trusted not,” that is, in times of danger I cheered those in despondency. And they could not cast dow…