Job 29:2 - Exposition

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.).