Job 29:2
Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
In Context
1And Job continued and said in his parable,
3As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.
Cross References
Job 1:10Hast thou not made a hedge about him, and about his household, and all his possessions round about? and hast thou not blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle upon the land?
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 →