Job 29:1
And Job continued his discourse:
2 “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,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And Job continued his discourse:
- KJV
- Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
- WEB
- Job again took up his parable, and said,
- ASV
- And Job again took up his parable, and said,
- DARBY
- And Job continued his parable and said,
- BLB
- And Job continued to lift up his discourse, and he said,
- ÅB
- Og Job ble ved å fremføre sin visdomstale og sa:
- OTB
- Da tok Job igjen til orde og sa,
- B1930
- Og Job blev ved å fremføre sin visdomstale og sa:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 27:1
Job continued his discourse:
Read in contextNumbers 23:7
And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
Read in contextJob 13:12
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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