Job 29:5

5 Cuando aún el Omnipotente estaba conmigo, Y mis hijos alrededor de mi;

Job 29:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 29:5

When the Almighty [was] yet with me
Not merely by his powerful and providential presence, as he is with all men; but in a special manner by his gracious presence, which is a wonderful and distinguishing favour; but sometimes the people of God are without it, at least they think so, and which was now Job's case, see ( Job 23:2 Job 23:3 Job 23:8 Job 23:9 ) ; and therefore he desires he would return to him, and show him his face and favour:

[when] my children [were] about me;
as olive plants about his table, in their youth; when he looked at them with great delight and pleasure, as his growing hopes; and, when grown up, and were not far from him, but were round about him, and lay near his heart, and whose welfare, temporal and spiritual, he was solicitous for; but now they were all taken away from him, and were no more: the word for "children" signifies also "servants" ^F20, and may take in them, of whom he had many to do his work and business; to attend upon him, to wait his orders, and execute them, and guard his person; but now many of them were slain by the Sabeans and Chaldeans, and by fire from heaven; and those he had were very disrespectful to him, see ( Job 19:15 Job 19:16 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (yren) "juvenes mei", Tigurine version; "vel famuli vel filii", Mercerus, Drusius; so Jarchi.

Job 29:5 In-Context

3 Cuando hacía resplandecer su candela sobre mi cabeza, A la luz de la cual yo caminaba en la oscuridad;

4 Como fué en los días de mi mocedad, Cuando el secreto de Dios estaba en mi tienda;

5 Cuando aún el Omnipotente estaba conmigo, Y mis hijos alrededor de mi;

6 Cuando lavaba yo mis caminos con manteca, Y la piedra me derramaba ríos de aceite!

7 Cuando salía á la puerta á juicio, Y en la plaza hacía preparar mi asiento,