Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me?
New American Standard Bible
As in the days when God
King James Version
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Holman Bible
in the days when God watched over me,
International Standard Version
"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,
A Conservative Version
O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
American Standard Version
Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
Amplified
“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
As in the days when God watched over me,
Bible in Basic English
If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
Darby Translation
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
King James 2000
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,
Modern King James verseion
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;
NET Bible
"O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,
New Heart English Bible
"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
The Emphasized Bible
Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;
Webster
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
World English Bible
"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?
Interlinear
Nathan
Qedem
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
1 And Job will add to lift up his parable, and say, 2 Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me? 3 In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness;
Names
Cross References
Job 1:1-5
A man as in the land of Uz, Job his name; and that man was blameless and upright, and fearing God, and departing from evil.
Job 1:10
Didst thou, not hedge about him and about his house, and about all that is to him from round about? Thou didst bless the work of his hands, and his possession spread abroad in the earth.
Job 7:3
So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.
Psalm 37:28
For Jehovah love's judgment, and he will not forsake his godly ones; forever they were watched, and the seed of the unjust was cut off.
Jeremiah 31:28
And it was as I watched over them to pluck up and to break down, and to destroy and to cut off, and to break in pieces; so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Jehovah.
Jude 1:1
Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the consecrated in God the Father, and the kept in Jesus Christ, the called: