Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Job 29:2
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Preserved me - from calamity.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Preserved me - from calamity.
Verse Job 29:2. _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 prosperity, which was very great, but was now entirely at an...
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....
CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another ch...
JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. 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)....
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, the "end".
Job begins with a pathetic expression of regret as he remembers happier times. His former happiness was due to God's preserving or _watching over_him, and the loss of it was due to God's forsaking him...
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 much...
D. THE SOLILOQUY OF A SUFFERER (Job 29:1, Job 31:40) 1. Reminiscencehis former happy life (Job 29:1-25) a. The outward aspect (Job 29:1-10) TEXT 29:1-
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 chieftain...
Job had a very successful life before his troubles began: • God was protecting Job (Job 1:10). And God was providing for Job. • Job became rich (Job 1:3) because God gave many possessions to Job (Jo...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 29 JOB DESCRIBES HIS LIFE B...
PRESERVED. — Or, _watched over me._ When does God not watch over us, if we only knew it?...
מִֽי ־יִתְּנֵ֥נִי כְ יַרְחֵי ־קֶ֑דֶם כִּ֝ ימֵ
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
THE BITTER MEMORY OF THE HAPPY PAST Job 29:1 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 chapter! T...
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 f...
Me. Job perceiving that his friends made no reply, (Calmet) and yet did not appear satisfied, (Haydock) explains how he had behaved in prosperity, in answer to the insinuations of Eliphaz; (chap. xxii...
(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 walked...
_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 propert...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 hi...
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 again ...
_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, a...
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 to belong to the remote past;...
JOB DESCRIBES HIS FORMER PROSPERITY...
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 muc...
"MONTHS GONE BY": Suggests that several months had passed since disaster had struck....
1-6 Job proceeds to contrast his former prosperity with his present misery, through God's withdrawing from him. A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not in the smiles of this world. Four things...
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 29:2 Oh H5414 (H8799) months H3391 past H6924 days H3117 God H433 watched H8104 (H8799) as in months -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He rehearses the story of his life. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not the smiles of the world, although virtu...
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 in...
_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 uncer...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:1 Chapters Job 29:1 conclude the dialogues with Job’s reflections on his current and future state....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:2 Job recalls a time when he felt as if he were in his PRIME, as the FRIENDSHIP OF GOD was evident on his household (v. Job 29:5
_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 well-g...
EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 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 another contra...
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1) He's got a lot to say. Bildad has run out, so Job thought, "I'll just keep going on." And now it's sort of a lament of the days before all of his afflictions. Lookin...
Job 1:10; Job 1:1; Job 7:3; Jude 1:1; Psalms 37:28...
Preserved — From all those miseries which now I feel....