Job 29 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Children AdamEve

Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 29 (WEB)

1Job again took up his parable, and said,

2“Oh that I were as in the months of old,

as in the days when God watched over me;

3when his lamp shone on my head,

and by his light I walked through darkness,

4as I was in my prime,

when the friendship of God was in my tent,

5when the Almighty was yet with me,

and my children were around me,

6when my steps were washed with butter,

and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

7when I went out to the city gate,

when I prepared my seat in the street.

8The young men saw me and hid themselves.

The aged rose up and stood.

9The princes refrained from talking,

and laid their hand on their mouth.

10The voice of the nobles was hushed,

and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me,

and when the eye saw me, it commended me,

12because I delivered the poor who cried,

and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,

and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.

My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

15I was eyes to the blind,

and feet to the lame.

16I was a father to the needy.

I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous

and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

18Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house,

I will count my days as the sand.

19My root is spread out to the waters.

The dew lies all night on my branch.

20My glory is fresh in me.

My bow is renewed in my hand.’

21“Men listened to me, waited,

and kept silence for my counsel.

22After my words they didn’t speak again.

My speech fell on them.

23They waited for me as for the rain.

Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

24I smiled on them when they had no confidence.

They didn’t reject the light of my face.

25I chose out their way, and sat as chief.

I lived as a king in the army,

as one who comforts the mourners.

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