Job 29:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me:

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  • Job 1:1-5 : 1 In the lode of Hus there was a man called Iob: an innocent and vertuous man, soch one as feared God, and eschued euell. 2 This man had vij. sonnes, and iij. doughters. 3 His substaunce was vij. M. shepe, iij.M. camels, v.C. yock of oxen, v.C. she asses, and a very greate housholde: so yt he was one of the most principall men amoge all them of the east countre. 4 His sonnes now wente on euery man, and made banckettes: one daye in one house, another daye in another, and sent for their iij. sisters, to eate & drinke with them. 5 So when they had passed ouer the tyme of their banckettinge rounde aboute, Iob sent for them, and clensed them agayne, stode vp early, and offred for euery one a bretofferinge. For Iob thought thus: peraduenture my sonnes haue done some offence, and haue bene vnthankfull to God in their hertes. And thus dyd Iob euery daye.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 hast thou not preserued him, his house, and all his substaunce on euery syde? hast thou not blessed the workes of his hondes? Is not his possession encreaced in the londe?
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For ye LORDE loueth ye thinge yt is right, he forsaketh not his sayntes, but they shal be preserued for euermore:
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 Yee it shall come therto, that like as I haue gone aboute in tymes past to rote them out, to scatre them, to breake them downe, to destroye them and chaste them: Euen so will I also go diligently aboute, to buylde them vp agayne, and to plante them, saieth the LORDE.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Ivdas the seruaunt of Iesus Christ, the brother off Iames. To the which are called, and sanctified in God the father, and preserued in Iesu Christ.
  • Job 7:3 : 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

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  • Job 29:3-7
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    3when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.

    4As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house:

    5when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me:

    6whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle:

    7when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete:

  • 1So Iob proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayenge:

  • Job 10:19-20
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    19Yf they had caried me to my graue, as soone as I was borne, then shulde I be now, as though I had neuer bene.

    20Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

  • Job 6:8-10
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    8O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for:

    9That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.

    10The shulde I haue some coforte: yee I wolde desyre him in my payne, that he shulde not spare, for I will not be agaynst ye wordes of the holy one.

  • Job 6:1-2
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    1Iob answered, and sayde:

    2O that my misery weere weyed, and my punyshment layed in the balaunces:

  • Job 23:1-3
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    1Iob answered, and sayd:

    2My sayenge is yet this daye in bytternes, and my hande heuy amonge my groninges.

    3O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate,

  • 13O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

  • 5Then remembred I the tymes of olde, & the yeares that were past.

  • 23O that my wordes were written, O that they were put in a boke:

  • 40On the daye tyme the heate cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.

  • 26Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysinge of the Sonne? Or, had I the goinge downe of ye Moone in greate reputacion?

  • Job 16:21-22
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    21Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,

    22yet the nombre of my yeares are come, & I must go the waye, from whence I shal not turne agayne.

  • 2The power & stregth of their hades might do me no good, & as for their age, it is spet & past awaye without eny profit.

  • 2Neuerthelesse my fete were allmost gone, my treadinges had wel nye slipte.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1Iob also proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayege:

    2As truly as God lyueth (which hath taken awaye my power fro me) & the Allmightie, that hath vexed my mynde:

  • 16O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.

  • 15I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame.

  • 16Where as I neuertheles ledinge the flock in thy wayes, haue compelled none by violence. For I neuer desyred eny mas deeth, this knowest thou well. My wordes also were right before the.

  • 2and sayde:

  • 19I am eue as it were claye, & am become like asshes & dust.

  • 13Oh spare me a litle, that I maye refresh myself, before I go hence, and be nomore sene.

  • 29Haue I euer reioysed at the hurte of myne enemy? Or, was I euer glad, yt eny harme happened vnto him? Oh no,

  • 3Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

  • 5That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me.

  • 11My dayes are past, my thoughtes are vanished awaye, which haue vexed myne herte,

  • 17Thus can not I get out of darcknesse, the cloude hath so couered my face.

  • 1Iob answered, and sayde:

  • 35O that I had one which wolde heare me. Lo, this is my cause. Let ye Allmightie geue me answere: & let him that is my cotrary party, sue me with a lybell.

  • 7Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

  • 37I haue tolde the nombre of my goinges, and delyuered them vnto him as to a prynce.

  • 5O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes.

  • 6let me be weyed in an eauen balaunce, that God maye se my innocency.

  • 1Iob answered, & sayde:

  • 5Are thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeares as mans yeares?

  • 8But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God:

  • 3Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.

  • 36O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he he hath turned himself to ye wicked:

  • 24Yet wil I saye: O my God, take me not awaye in ye myddest of myne age: as for thy yeares, they endure thorow out all generacions.