Job 29:5

Amplified Bible

When the Almighty was still with me And my boys were around me,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
when the Almighty was still with meand my children were around me,

Hebrew Names Version
When Shaddai was yet with me, And my children were around me;

King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

English Standard Version
when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

New Century Version
The Almighty was still with me, and my children were all around me.

New English Translation
when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

New American Standard Bible
When the Almighty was still with me, And my children were around me;

World English Bible
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

Geneva Bible (1587)
When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.

Legacy Standard Bible
When the Almighty was yet with me,And my children were around me,

Berean Standard Bible
when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

Contemporary English Version
and all of my children were nearby.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Shaddai was still with me, my children were around me;

Darby Translation
When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

Easy-to-Read Version
God All-Powerful was still with me then, and my children were all around me.

George Lamsa Translation
When the Almighty was yet round about me in my youth;

Good News Translation
Almighty God was with me then, and I was surrounded by all my children.

Lexham English Bible
when Shaddaiwas still with me, my children were all around me,

Literal Translation
when the Almighty was yet with me and my children were around me;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me:

American Standard Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

Bible in Basic English
While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;

King James Version (1611)
When the Almightie was yet with me, when my children were about me:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the almightie was yet with me, when my children stoode about me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;

English Revised Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne Almyyti God was with me, and my children weren in my cumpas;

Update Bible Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

Webster's Bible Translation
When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;

New King James Version
When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me;

New Living Translation
The Almighty was still with me, and my children were around me.

New Life Bible
The All-powerful was still with me, and my children were around me.

New Revised Standard
when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
While yet the Almighty was with me, round about me, were my young men;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

Revised Standard Version
when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Young's Literal Translation
When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me -- my young ones,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

Contextual Overview

¹And Job again took up his discussion and said, ²"Oh, that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me, ³When His lamp shone upon my head And by His light I walked through darkness; ⁴As I was in the prime of my days, When the friendship and counsel of God were over my tent, ⁵When the Almighty was still with me And my boys were around me,⁶When my steps [through rich pastures] were washed with butter and cream [from my livestock], And the rock poured out for me streams of oil [from my olive groves].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Almighty: Job 23:3, Job 23:8-10, Deuteronomy 33:27-29, Joshua 1:9, Judges 6:12, Judges 6:13, Psalms 30:7, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 44:8, Psalms 44:9, Song of Solomon 2:4, Song of Solomon 3:1, Song of Solomon 3:2, Jeremiah 14:8, Matthew 9:15

my children: Job 1:2-5, Job 42:13-16, Psalms 127:3-5, Psalms 128:3, Proverbs 17:6

Reciprocal: Job 16:7 - hast made

Cross-References

Genesis 24:24
And she said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah's son, whom she bore to [her husband] Nahor."

Genesis 24:29
Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man at the well.

Genesis 31:53
"The God of Abraham [your father] and the God of Nahor [my father], and the god [the image of worship] of their father [Terah, an idolater], judge between us." But Jacob swore [only] by [the one true God] the Fear of his father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When the Almighty [was] yet with me,.... Not merely by his powerful and providential presence, as he is with all men; but in a special manner by his gracious presence, which is a wonderful and distinguishing favour; but sometimes the people of God are without it, at least they think so, and which was now Job's case, see

Job 23:2; and therefore he desires he would return to him, and show him his face and favour:

[when] my children [were] about me; as olive plants about his table, in their youth; when he looked at them with great delight and pleasure, as his growing hopes; and, when grown up, and were not far from him, but were round about him, and lay near his heart, and whose welfare, temporal and spiritual, he was solicitous for; but now they were all taken away from him, and were no more: the word for "children" signifies also "servants" t, and may take in them, of whom he had many to do his work and business; to attend upon him, to wait his orders, and execute them, and guard his person; but now many of them were slain by the Sabeans and Chaldeans, and by fire from heaven; and those he had were very disrespectful to him, see Job 19:15.

t נערי "juvenes mei", Tigurine version; "vel famuli vel filii", Mercerus, Drusius; so Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When the Almighty was yet with me - Job regarded God as withdrawn from him. He now looked back with deep interest to the time when he dwelt with him.