The Pulpit Commentary on Job 29:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Oh that I were as in months past! or, in the months of old. To Job the period of his prosperity seems long, long ago—some-thing far away in the mist of time, which he recalls with difficulty. As in the days when God preserved me.

Job never forgets to refer his prosperity to God, or to be grateful to him for it (see Job 1:21; Job 2:10; Job 10:8-12, etc.).

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