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