Job 29:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through 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:
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Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Read in contextNumbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Read in contextJob 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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