Job 29:5
At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
In Context
4I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.
6Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Behold, I am instructing you. Be strengthened, and be steadfast. Do not dread, and do not fear. For the Lord your God is with you in all things, wherever you may go.”
Job 1:2And there had been born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 23:8If I go to the east, he does not appear; if I go to the west, I will not understand him.
Psalms 30:7You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord.
Psalms 44:8You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.
Psalms 128:3The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity.
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 →