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Job’s Final Defense

29 Moreover Job continued his discourse:

“Oh, that I were as in months past,
    as in the days when God watched over me;
when His lamp shone upon my head,
    and when by His light I walked through darkness;
as I was in the days of my autumn youth,
    when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
when the Almighty was still with me,
    when my children were around me;
when my steps were bathed in butter,
    and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!

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Job’s Final Defense

29 Then[a] Job again took up his discourse and said,

O that I were[b] as in the months before,
as in the days when God watched over me,
when his shining lamp was over my head—
by his light I walked through darkness—
as when I was in the days of my prime,
when God’s confiding was over my house,[c]
when Shaddaiwas still with me,
my children were all around me,
when my paths were washed in sour milk,
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 29:2 Literally “Who shall give me”
  3. Job 29:4 Literally “tent”