Job’s Summary Defense

29 Job further continued his discourse, and said:

“Oh, that I were as in months (A)past,
As in the days when God (B)watched over me;
(C)When His lamp shone upon my head,
And when by His light I walked through darkness;
Just as I was in the days of my prime,
When (D)the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
When the Almighty was yet with me,
When my children were around me;
When (E)my steps were bathed with [a]cream,
And (F)the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:6 So with ancient vss. and a few Heb. mss. (cf. Job 20:17); MT wrath

Job’s Final Defense

29 Job continued his discourse:(A)

“How I long for the months gone by,(B)
    for the days when God watched over me,(C)
when his lamp shone on my head
    and by his light I walked through darkness!(D)
Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
    when God’s intimate friendship(E) blessed my house,(F)
when the Almighty was still with me
    and my children(G) were around me,(H)
when my path was drenched with cream(I)
    and the rock(J) poured out for me streams of olive oil.(K)

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