Job 29:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:1-5 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. 4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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." Job did so continually.
  • Job 1:10 : 10 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
  • Ps 37:28 : 28 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 It shall happen 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, says Yahweh.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
  • Job 7:3 : 3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

    4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

    5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

    6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

    7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

  • 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

  • Job 10:19-20
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    19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 6:8-10
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    8 "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

    9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 6:1-2
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    1 Then Job answered,

    2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

  • Job 23:1-3
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    1 Then Job answered,

    2 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

    3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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

  • 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

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

  • Job 16:21-22
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    21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

    22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

  • 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

    2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

  • 16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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

  • 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • 2 Job answered:

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • 3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

  • 11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • 35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

  • 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

  • 6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • 5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

  • 8 "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

  • 3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

  • 24 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.