If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
Parallel translations
- KJV If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
- BSB if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- NKJV If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gained much;
- NASB If I have gloated because my wealth was great, And because my hand had obtained so much;
- NLT Have I gloated about my wealth and all that I own?
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Quick answer
Job denies rejoicing merely because his wealth was great or because he had gained much. He did not find his joy in possessions.
Overview
Job affirms that his gladness did not rest in the size of his fortune or the abundance his hand had acquired. This shows a heart not captivated by material success even while he was prosperous. The contentment that does not idolize wealth reflects godly wisdom and points to the deeper joy offered in Christ, in whom believers possess an inheritance that cannot perish, spoil, or fade.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
- Deut 8:17–18and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
- Esth 5:11Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
- Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Isa 10:13–14For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
- Dan 4:30The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
- Jer 9:23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
- Ezek 28:5by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches —
- Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
- Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
- Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
- Hos 12:8Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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