Job 29:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:1-5 : 1 There was a man in the lande of Vz called Iob, & this man was an vpright and iust man, one that feared God, and eschewed euill. 2 And he had seue sonnes, & three daughters. 3 His substance also was seuen thousande sheepe, and three thousand camels, and fiue hundreth yoke of oxen, and fiue hundreth shee asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East. 4 And his sonnes went & banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, & called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them. 5 And when the dayes of their banketting were gone about, Iob sent, and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offred burnt offrings according to the nomber of them all. For Iob thought, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, & blasphemed God in their hearts: thus did Iob euery day.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, & about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, & his substance is increased in the land.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For the Lord loueth iudgement, and forsaketh not his Saintes: they shall be preserued for euermore: but the seede of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And like as I haue watched vpon them, to plucke vp and to roote out, and to throw downe, and to destroy, and to plague them, so wil I watch ouer them, to build & to plant them, saith ye Lord.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Ivde a seruaunt of Iesus Christ, and brother of Iames, to them which are called and sanctified of God the Father, and returned to Iesus Christ:
  • Job 7:3 : 3 So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.

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    3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

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    1Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

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    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.

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    23Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

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    26If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

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    16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

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    15I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

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    2And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

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    19He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

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    1Then Iob answered, and sayd,

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    35Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,

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    37I will tell him the nomber of my goings, and goe vnto him as to a prince.

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    3But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.

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    24And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.