Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

New American Standard Bible

“Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God watched over me;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

If only I could be as in months gone by,
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;

Lexham Expanded Bible

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Oh that
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

I were as in months
ירח 
Yerach 
Usage: 13

קדמה קדם 
Qedem 
Usage: 87

as in the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense

1 And Job continued the lifting up of his speech, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me; 3 when His lamp shone on my head; I walked through darkness by His light;

Cross References

Job 1:1-5

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned aside from evil.

Job 1:10

Have You not made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

Job 7:3

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me.

Psalm 37:28

For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Jeremiah 31:28

And it shall be, as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so I will watch over them to build, and to plant, says Jehovah.

Jude 1:1

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the ones called in God the Father, having been set apart, and having been kept by Jesus Christ:

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