Job 29:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֥נִי כְיַרְחֵי־קֶ֑דֶם כִּ֝ימֵ֗י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יִשְׁמְרֵֽנִי

Transliteration

mî-yittənēnî kə-yarḥê-qedem kî-yəmê ʾĕlôah yišmərēnî

Grammar Details

• *mî-yittənēnî*: interrogative + Qal imperfect, 3rd masc singular + 1st person object suffix - who will give me/who would make me
• *kə-yarḥê-qedem*: preposition + noun, masc plural construct + noun - like months of before/ancient/past
• *kî-yəmê*: preposition + noun, masc plural construct - like days of
• *ʾĕlôah*: noun, masculine singular - God
• *yišmərēnî*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masc singular + 1st person object suffix - he kept/guarded/protected me

Word Meanings

• *mî-yittənēnî*: who would make me/oh that I were
• *qedem*: east/ancient time/former time
• *ʾĕlôah*: God/deity
• *yišmərēnî*: he guarded/kept/watched over me

Referenced Verses

• Job 1:1-5 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil. 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. 4 And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
• Job 1:10 : 10 Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
• Ps 37:28 : 28 For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Jer 31:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Job 7:3 : 3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.