Job 29:4
As I was, in the days of my prime, when, the intimacy of GOD, was over my tent;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
3When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;
5While yet the Almighty was with me, round about me, were my young men;
Cross References
Job 1:10Hast not, thou thyself, made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? The work of his hands, thou hast blessed, and, his substance, hath broken forth in the land.
Psalms 25:14Intimacy with Yahweh, have they who revere him, His covenant also, he letteth them know.
Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, Under the shadow of the Almighty, will tarry,
Colossians 3:3For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God,—
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 →