Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, 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;
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;
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 continued his speech: 2 "O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me, 3 when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and 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. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Job 1:10
Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and 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
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
Psalm 37:28
For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.
Jeremiah 31:28
In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the Lord, affirm it!"
Jude 1:1
From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.