Job 29:1
Verse 1 of 25. The 29th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job 29:1 in the World English Bible
Job again took up his parable, and said,Read Job 29:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 29:1
Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (v. 2): O that I were as in months past! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 29:1–6: Former Prosperity of Job. (b. c. 1520.)
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