so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
⛓ Read Job 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety' parallels Paul's 'God who comforts the lowly' alongside the Corinthians' 'mourning' (7:7). The shared lowly-and-mourning pairing is suggestive, but Job is rarely echoed by Paul and the volume is faint. Marked low and contested.
Low confidenceGod 'sets on high those who are lowly,' the wisdom statement of divine reversal that informs the first-last saying. It supports the reversal pattern's Recurrence. Contested and low: general reversal topos.
Low confidence