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Job 29:1-3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

VI. Job’s Final Summary of His Cause

Chapter 29

1 [a]Job took up his theme again and said:

2 Oh, that I were as in the months past,
    as in the days when God watched over me:(A)
3 While he kept his lamp shining above my head,
    and by his light I walked through darkness;

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Footnotes

  1. 29:1 This chapter begins Job’s soliloquy, which will end in 31:40. He describes in florid and exaggerated terms his former lifestyle with all its blessings, a deliberate contrast to his current plight, which will be further described in chap. 30.
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