Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
In Context
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of God was over my tent,
6When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil!
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and courageous? Be not afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Job 1:2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 23:8Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
Psalms 30:7Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
Psalms 44:8In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the inner part of thy house; thy children like olive-plants round about thy table.
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 →