Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved 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 King James verseion

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over 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 So Job proceeded and went forth in his communication, saying, 2 "Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.


Cross References

Job 1:1-5

In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 1:10

Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land?

Job 7:3

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

Psalm 37:28

For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.

Jeremiah 31:28

Yea it shall come thereto, that like as I have gone about in times past to root them out, to scatter them, to break them down, to destroy them and chasten them: Even so will I also go diligently about, to build them up again, and to plant them, sayeth the LORD.

Jude 1:1

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James. To them which are called and sanctified in God the father, and preserved in Christ Jesus.

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