Job 29:2

In 11 translations

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;

LSV

“Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?

YLT

Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?

DBY

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;Eloah

DRC

Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

GNV

Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

JPS

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

LXXE

Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!

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Original-language editions

WLC

מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֥נִי כְיַרְחֵי־קֶ֑דֶם כִּ֝ימֵ֗י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יִשְׁמְרֵֽנִי׃

LXX-Br

Τίς ἄν με θείη κατὰ μῆνα ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν, ὧν με ὁ Θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν;

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• Jeremiah 31:28Just 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.
• Job 1:10Have 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.
• Job 1:1–5There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of…
• Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
• Jude 1:1Jude, 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:
• Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

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