“ Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; ”
Oh that I were - Hebrew “Who will give?” a common mode of expressing a wish; compare Job 6:8 ; Job 11:5 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 23:3 . As in months past - O that I could recall my former prosper...
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....
I. Note the frequency of "I" (self-occupation). In Job 29 , the "I" of prosperity; in Job 30 , the "I" of adversity; in Job 31 , the "I" of self-righteousness. Contrast the "I" of Job 42:2-6 ,...
DISCOURSE: 478 SPIRITUAL DECLENSION CONSIDERED Job 29:2 . O that I were as in months past! TO take a retrospect of our past lives is always profitable: but it is not unfrequently attended with...
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; O that I were as in months past - Job seems here to make an apology for his complaints, by taking a view of his former pr...
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; Preserved me - from calamity.
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...
Preserved. — Or, watched over me. When does God not watch over us, if we only knew it?
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...
(1) В¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, (2) Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; (3) When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walke...
THE PROVINCE OF FEELING IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE ‘Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.’ Job 29:2 Job was, indeed, terribly afflicted. He had lost all his pr...
Oh that I were as [in] months past ,.... Which is either an earnest wish for restoration to his former state of outward prosperity; which he might desire, not through impatience and discontent under...
Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; Ver. 2. Oh that I were as in months past ] O mihi praeteritos, &c. Though Job desireth not so much to be young a...
O that I were as in months past O that God would re- establish me in that happy condition wherein I was some time ago; in the days when God preserved me From all those miseries which now I feel,...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...
Former Prosperity of Job. B. C. 1520. 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, ...
To wit, from all those miseries which now I feel. This he desires, not only for his own ease and comfort, but also for the vindication of his reputation, and of the honour of religion, which suffered...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...
Oh, that I were as in months past. The fluctuations of a religious life I. Their prevalence. Ebbs and tides of feeling are common to all life, good or bad. Religious moods are as frequent, as u...
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...
Job Describes his Former Prosperity
Job 1:10 ; Job 1:1-5 ; Job 7:3 ; Jude 1:1 ; Psalms 37:28
Preserved — From all those miseries which now I feel.