Job 29:5
When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
In Context
4As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.
6when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Lo! I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous, be not cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord thy God is with thee in all places whither thou goest.
Job 1:2And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Job 23:8For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end?
Psalms 30:7Thou hast hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.
Psalms 44:8Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy fellows.
Psalms 128:3The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their + 128:3 שיך iniquity, easily read for שוכה a furrow.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 →