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

29 Moreover Job continued his parable and said:

“Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

when His candle shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness,

as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

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