Job 29:2

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Oh, that I were as in the months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me,

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  • Job 1:1-5 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and turned away from evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters born to him. 3 His wealth consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east. 4 His sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and consecrate them. Rising early in the morning, he would offer burnt offerings for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Job did this regularly.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.'
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His faithful ones. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 Just as I watched over them to uproot, tear down, demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who are called, loved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ.
  • Job 7:3 : 3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

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  • Job 29:3-7
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    3 when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

    4 I was as in the prime of my life, when the intimate friendship of God was over my tent.

    5 The Almighty was still with me, and my children surrounded me.

    6 My steps were bathed in cream, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.

    7 When I went out to the city gate, and took my seat in the public square,

  • 1 Job continued speaking further, saying:

  • Job 10:19-20
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    19 If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 6:8-10
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    8 Oh, that my request would be granted, and that God would fulfill my hope.

    9 That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

    10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 6:1-2
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    1 Then Job responded and said:

    2 If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!

  • Job 23:1-3
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    1 Then Job answered and said:

    2 Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

    3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.

  • 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 5 You have held my eyelids open; I am troubled and cannot speak.

  • 23 Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

  • 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

  • 26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Job 16:21-22
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    21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

    22 For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

  • 2 Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped, my steps nearly stumbled.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 And Job continued speaking his discourse, saying:

    2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

  • 16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

  • 16 I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You. I have not desired the day of disaster. You know what has come from my lips; it was before You.

  • 2 And Job answered and said:

  • 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • 13 Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

  • 29 If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him—

  • 3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

  • 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

  • 11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • 17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 35 Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book.

  • 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him like a prince.

  • 5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast in keeping Your statutes!

  • 6 let God weigh me with honest scales, and He will know my integrity.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said,

  • 5 Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

  • 8 But I would seek God and place my cause before the Almighty.

  • 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • 36 I wish that Job might be tested to the end for answering like wicked men.

  • 24 He has afflicted my strength in the way; he has shortened my days.