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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 119:50 → Job 6:10

Echo

Later text

Psalms 119:50BSB

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

Earlier text

Job 6:10BSB

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Significance

Psalm 119:50 declares "This is my comfort (נֶחָמָה, nechamah) in affliction, that Your promise has given me life" — finding consolation in God's promises during suffering. Job 6:10 expresses a similar sentiment from a starkly different position: "It still brings me comfort (נֶחָמָה, nechamah)... that I have not denied the words of the Holy One." Both texts use the same Hebrew term for "comfort/consolation" and ground their hope in God's word during acute suffering. The contrast is instructive: the psalmist's comfort comes through Torah meditation, while Job's consolation is the integrity of having not denied God's words — two distinct but complementary modes of clinging to divine speech in affliction. Job names that fidelity precisely as not having denied "the words of the Holy One" (אִמְרֵי קָדוֹשׁ, imrey qadosh), the specific divine speech his integrity was tested against.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the psalmist's comfort (נֶחָמָה) "that Your promise has given me life" (Ps 119:50) answers to Job's comfort "that I have not denied the words of the Holy One" (Job 6:10), two sufferers holding to divine speech from opposite postures — promise received and fidelity maintained — corresponding modes of clinging to the word that meet in the suffering Servant sustained by what is written.