Job 29:5
While yet the Almighty was with me, round about me, were my young men;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 days of my prime, when, the intimacy of GOD, was over my tent;
6When my steps were bathed in milk, and, the rock, poured out beside me, rivulets of oil:
Cross References
Joshua 1:9Have I not commanded thee, Be firm and bold, do not start nor be dismayed,—for, with thee, is Yahweh thy God, whithersoever thou goest?
Job 1:2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 23:8Behold! eastward, I go, but he is not there, and, westward, but I perceive him not;
Psalms 30:7O Yahweh, in thy good-pleasure, hadst thou caused my mountain to stand, strong,—Thou didst hide thy face—I was dismayed!
Psalms 44:8In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. [Selah.]
Psalms 128:3Thy wife, like a fruitful vine, within the recesses of thy house,—Thy children, like plantings of olive-trees, 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 →