Verse 2

O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me:

Referenced Verses

• Job 1:1-5 : 1 In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill. 2 And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters. 3 His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countrey. 4 And his sonnes went and banquetted in their houses euery one his day, and sent for their three sisters to eate and drinke with them. 5 And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about, Iob sent and sanctified them, and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring: For Iob saide, It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence, & haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes. Thus did Iob euery day.
• Job 1:10 : 10 Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande.
• Ps 37:28 : 28 For God loueth iudgement, he forsaketh not his saintes: they are preserued for euermore, but the seede of the vngodlye shalbe rooted vp.
• Jer 31:28 : 28 Yea it shall come therto, that like as I haue gone about in tymes past to roote them out, to scatter them, to breake them downe, to destroy them, & chasten them: euen so wyll I also go diligently about to builde them vp agayne, and to plant them, saith the Lorde.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Iude the seruaunt of Iesus Christe, the brother of Iames: To them which are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserued in Iesus Christe:
• Job 7:3 : 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.