King James Version
Job 29:4 in the King James Version says “As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;” — study this verse from Job chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;”
Job 29:4 · KJV
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; candle: or, lamp
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; me: Heb. with me
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who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“As I was in the days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“of my youth”
H2779properly, the crop gathered, i.e., (by implication) the autumn (and winter) season; figuratively, ripeness of age
“when the secret”
H5475a session, i.e., company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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