Job 29:2
“Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?
Literal Standard Version
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 adds to lift up his allegory and says:
3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, || By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Cross References
Job 1:10Have You not made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he has—all around?
Psalms 37:28For YHWH is loving judgment, || And He does not forsake His saintly ones, || They have been kept for all time, || And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Jude 1:1Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those called, having been loved in God [the] Father, and having been kept in Jesus Christ,
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 →