Job 29:1-8

1 En Job ging voort zijn spreuk op te heffen, en zeide:
2 Och, of ik ware, gelijk in de vorige maanden, gelijk in de dagen, toen God mij bewaarde!
3 Toen Hij Zijn lamp deed schijnen over mijn hoofd, en ik bij Zijn licht de duisternis doorwandelde;
4 Gelijk als ik was in de dagen mijner jonkheid, toen Gods verborgenheid over mijn tent was;
5 Toen de Almachtige nog met mij was, en mijn jongens rondom mij;
6 Toen ik mijn gangen wies in boter, en de rots bij mij oliebeken uitgoot;
7 Toen ik uitging naar de poort door de stad, toen ik mijn stoel op de straat liet bereiden.
8 De jongens zagen mij, en verstaken zich, en de stokouden rezen op en stonden.

Job 29:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 29

In this chapter Job gives an account of his former and wishes it was with him now as then; and which he describes with respect to his own person, and the favours he personally enjoyed, whether temporal or spiritual, Job 29:1-4; with respect to his family and domestic affairs, Job 29:5,6; with regard to the esteem he had from men of every age and station, Job 29:7-11; the reasons of which were the mercy and compassion he showed to the poor, the fatherless, and the widow, and the justice he administered in the execution of his office as a magistrate, Job 29:12-17; in which honour and prosperity he expected to have lived and died, Job 29:18-20; and which he further describes by the respect he had among men, and the power and authority he exercised over them, Job 29:21-25.

The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.