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Job 38:41

The New Testament’s use of Job

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 12:22-31

'Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God?' is the direct source of 'Consider the ravens... God feeds them.' The named bird (raven, not a generic fowl) and the divine feeding make this a high-Volume allusion to God's wilderness providence.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 6:25-34 ?

'Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry?' — the divine-speech argument that God feeds wild birds, paralleling the lesson of v.26.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Job 38
Job 38:8-11 3Job 38:17 2