Job 29:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Oh that I were as in months past, As in the days when God preserved me;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, [Eccl. 7:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Common English Bible

² Oh, that life was like it used to be, like days when God watched over me;

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?

Job 29:2 Cross References

Job 1:10

Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Job 7:3

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Jeremiah 31:28

And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.

Jude 1:1

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: