Job 29:5
When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me — my young ones,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
In Context
4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.
6When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.
Cross References
Joshua 1:9'Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee [is] Jehovah thy God in every [place] whither thou goest.'
Job 1:2And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,
Job 23:8Lo, forward I go — and He is not, And backward — and I perceive him not.
Psalms 30:7O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face — I have been troubled.
Psalms 44:8In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.
Psalms 128:3Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around 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 →