Job 29:1

Job's Final Claim of Innocence

1 Job continued his discourse, saying:

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 29:1 In-Context

1 Job continued his discourse, saying:
2 If only I could be as in months gone by, in the days when God watched over me,
3 when His lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkness by His light!
4 [I would be] as I was in the days of my youth when God's friendship rested on my tent,
5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
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