Job 29:5
Verse 5 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;
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Matthew Henry on Job 29:5
The assurance he had of the divine presence (v. 5): The Almighty was yet with me. Now he thought God had departed from him, but in those days he was with him, and that was all in all to him. God's presence with a man in his house, though it be but a cottage, makes it both a castle and a palace.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 29:1–6: Former Prosperity of Job. (b. c. 1520.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.