Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my servants stood round about me;
Leeser Tanakh
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 abundance, when the confidence of God was upon my tent:
6When I bathed my steps in cream, and the rock poured out near me streamlets of oil!
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Behold, I have commanded thee, Be strong and of good courage; be not dismayed, neither be thou discouraged; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Job 1:2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 23:8But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;
Psalms 30:7(30:8) Lord, by thy favor hadst thou caused my mountain to stand in strength: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was terrified.
Psalms 44:8(44:9) Of God we boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Selah.
Psalms 128:3Thy wife is [then] as a fruitful vine in the recesses 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 →