Job 29:2

¹ And Job continued his discourse:

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

³ when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

⁴ when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

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ÅB: Å, om jeg hadde det som i fordums måneder, som i de dager da Gud vernet om meg,
OTB: «Om jeg bare kunne være som i de måneder som gikk,
Som i de dager da Gud våket over meg;
B1930: Å, om jeg hadde det som i fordums måneder, som i de dager da Gud vernet om mig,

BSB: “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
KJV: Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
WEB: “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
ASV: Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
DARBY: Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
BLB: “Who will make me as [in] months past, as the days [when] God was keeping me?

Job 1:10
Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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Jeremiah 31:28
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
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Job 1:1–5
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
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Job 7:3
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
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Psalms 37:28
For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
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Jude 1:1
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
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