Job 1:10; Job 1:1-5; Job 7:3; Jude 1:1; Psalms 37:28
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 mont...
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 in...
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...
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 pr...
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...
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...
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 in...
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...
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 fo...
(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...
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,...
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 d...
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, &...
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 preser...
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, a...
Former Prosperity of Job. B. C. 1520. ...
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 reputat...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
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....
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,...
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...
Job Describes his Former Prosperity
Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, sighing for the happy condition of that period of his life which now seems t...
Preserved — From all those miseries which now I feel.
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;