Job 29:5

Contemporary English Version

and all of my children were nearby.

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;

Amplified Bible
When the Almighty was still with me And my boys 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,

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

¹ Job Continues Job said: ² I long for the past, when God took care of me, ³ and the light from his lamp showed me the way through the dark. ⁴ I was in the prime of life, God All-Powerful was my closest friend, ⁵ and all of my children were nearby. ⁶ My herds gave enough milk to bathe my feet, and from my olive harvest flowed rivers of oil.

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
She answered, "My father is Bethuel, the son of Nahor and Milcah.

Genesis 24:29
Her brother Laban heard her tell what the servant had said, and he saw the ring and the bracelets she was wearing. So Laban ran out to Abraham's servant, who was standing by his camels at the well.

Genesis 31:53
My father Nahor, your grandfather Abraham, and their ancestors all worshiped the same God, and he will make sure that we each keep the agreement. Then Jacob made a promise in the name of the fearsome God his father Isaac had worshiped.

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.