Job 29:1

1 En Job ging voort zijn spreuk op te heffen, en zeide:

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 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;