Job 29:4
As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, 1 When God took care of my house. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
In Context
3As when his lamp shone over my head; 1 When by his light I walked through darkness. 1
5When I was very fruitful, 1 And my children were about me; 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
Psalms 91:1A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath day. 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 →