Devine Scripture

Job 29:2

Job chapter 29 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Context

v.1And Job again took up his parable, and said,

v.2This passage

v.3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 37:28

    For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Jude 1:1

    Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

  • Job 7:3

    So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • Jeremiah 31:28

    And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah.

  • Job 1:1

    There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

  • Job 1:10

    Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.