Job 29:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 29:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 27:1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Numbers 23:7
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Job 13:12
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1. “O that I were in as good a sta…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 29:1-25. 1. Job pauses for a reply. None being made, he proceeds to illustrate the mysteriousness of God’s dealings, as set forth (Job 28:1-28) by his own case.