Job 29:2 ““How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over…”

Job 29:2

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

World English Bible

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

American Standard Version

Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Geneva Bible 1599

Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

Darby Translation

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Young's Literal Translation

Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?

Bible in Basic English

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

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Cross references

“as in months”

Job 1:1–5 Job 7:3

Job 1:1–5 · BSB

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Job 7:3 · BSB

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

“God”

Job 1:10 Psalm 37:28 Jude 1:1

Job 1:10 · BSB

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Psalm 37:28 · BSB

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

Jude 1:1 · BSB

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

Also

Jeremiah 31:28

Jeremiah 31:28 · BSB

Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1And Job continued his discourse:

3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

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