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Job 22:29

The New Testament’s use of Job

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Jas 4:7-10

'When they are humbled you say, It is because of pride; but he saves the lowly' anticipates 'humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.' The humbling-then-exalting reversal is the same.

Medium confidence
Luke 18:9-14

Job 22:29 states that when one is brought low he says 'lift up,' for God saves the lowly of eyes, matching both the exaltation-of-the-humble logion and the detail that the tax collector would not lift up his eyes. The eyes-lowered humility detail strengthens the link beyond the common reversal topos. Medium volume.

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 Pet 5:5-11 ?

'When they are cast down... the humble person he saves' (LXX: God 'will save the one of lowly eyes') feeds the humility-then-exaltation logic of 'humble yourselves... that he may exalt you.'

Medium confidence
Matt 23:1-12 ?

"He saves the humble... God saves the lowly" parallels the exalt/humble logic of v12.

Low confidence