◄ Job 1:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face downward on the ground.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Contemporary English Version
When Job heard this, he tore his clothes and shaved his head because of his great sorrow. He knelt on the ground, then worshiped God

New American Bible
Then Job arose and tore his cloak and cut off his hair. He fell to the ground and worshiped.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

rent.

Genesis 37:29,34 And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy: . . .

Ezra 9:3 And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.

mantle.

Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:

2 Samuel 12:16-20 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground. . . .

2 Chronicles 7:3 Moreover all the children of Israel saw the fire coming down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house: and falling down with their faces to the ground, upon the stone pavement, they adored and praised the Lord: because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.

Matthew 26:39 And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

Context
Job Loses His Children and Possessions
…19A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. 20Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,21And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:29
And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy:

Genesis 37:34
And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

Joshua 7:6
But Joshua rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

2 Kings 2:12
And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.

Job 1:19
A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 2:12
And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

Joel 2:13
And rend your hearts, and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.

Job 1:19
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