Job 29:1

Job's Summary Defense

1 And Job again ¹took up his discourse, and said:

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 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

2 "Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

5 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

Cross References

• 1. Job 27:1; See Numbers 23:7