Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over 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;
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me?
King James 2000
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved 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 Then Job again took up his discourse and said, 2 "{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me, 3 when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--
Names
Cross References
Job 1:1-5
[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.
Job 1:10
Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him} {on every side}? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land.
Job 7:3
So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Psalm 37:28
For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But [the] children of [the] wicked will be cut off.
Jeremiah 31:28
{And then} as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," {declares} Yahweh.
Jude 1:1
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to [those who are] called, loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.