Job 29:5
When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:
6When I washed my pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Haue not I commanded thee, saying, Be strong and of a good courage, feare not, nor be discouraged? for I the Lord thy God will be with thee, whithersoeuer thou goest.
Job 1:2And he had seue sonnes, and three daughters.
Job 23:8Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
Psalms 30:7For thou Lord of thy goodnes hadest made my mountaine to stande strong: but thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled.
Psalms 44:8Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer. Selah.
Psalms 128:3Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes 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 →