Job 29:1

1 Iyov went on speaking:

Job 29:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 29:1

Moreover, Job continued his parable
Or "added to take [it] up" ^F17, that is, he took it up again, and went on with his discourse; he made a pause for awhile, waiting to observe whether any of his three friends would return an answer to what he had said; but perceiving they were not inclined to make any reply, he began again, and gave an account of his former life, in order to show that he was far from being the wicked man, or being so accounted by others, as his friends had represented him:

and said;
as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (tav Powyw) "addidit assumere", Montanus, Bolducius, Mercerus; "addidit tollere", Drusius.

Job 29:1 In-Context

1 Iyov went on speaking:

2 "I wish I were as in the old days, back in the times when God watched over me;

3 when his lamp shone over my head, and I walked through the dark by its light;

4 as I was when I was young, and God's counsel graced my tent.

5 Then Shaddai was still with me, my children were around me;