Job 29:2
Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
In Context
1Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
3At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.
Cross References
Job 1:10Have you not fortified him, as well as his house and every one of his belongings around him, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession has increased in the land?
Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are beloved in God the Father, and who are guarded and called in Jesus Christ:
Matthew Henry on Job 29:2-7
Former Prosperity of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Losers may have leave to speak, and… Read the whole commentary →