Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving 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;
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;
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 addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: -- 2 Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me? 3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.
Names
Cross References
Job 1:1-5
A man there hath been in the land of Uz -- Job his name -- and that man hath been perfect and upright -- both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
Job 1:10
Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?
Job 7:3
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
Psalm 37:28
For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Jeremiah 31:28
And it hath been, as I watched over them to pluck up, And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jude 1:1
Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept -- called,