Job 29:2
Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?
Young's Literal Translation
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 addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Cross References
Job 1:10Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath — round about?
Psalms 37:28For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Jude 1:1Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept — called,
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 →