Job 29:20

Easy-to-Read Version

I thought each new day would bring more honor and be full of new possibilities.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My whole being will be refreshed within me,and my bow will be renewed in my hand.”

Hebrew Names Version
My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

King James Version
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

English Standard Version
my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

New Century Version
New honors will come to me continually, and I will always have great strength.'

New English Translation
My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

Amplified Bible
'My glory and honor are fresh in me [being constantly renewed], And my bow gains [ever] new strength in my hand.'

New American Standard Bible
'My glory is ever new with me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.'

World English Bible
My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.

Legacy Standard Bible
My glory is ever new with me,And my bow is renewed in my hand.'

Berean Standard Bible
My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

Contemporary English Version
or like an archer's new bow.

Complete Jewish Bible
my glory will always be fresh, my bow always new in my hand.'

Darby Translation
My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

George Lamsa Translation
I shall take my bow with me, and renew it in my hand.

Good News Translation
Everyone was always praising me, and my strength never failed me.

Lexham English Bible
My glory was new with me, and I was revitalized regularly.'

Literal Translation
My glory was fresh with me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande.

American Standard Version
My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.

Bible in Basic English
My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'

King James Version (1611)
My glory was fresh in mee, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Myne honour encreased more and more, & my bow was euer the stronger in my hande.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.

English Revised Version
My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My glorie schal euere be renulid, and my bouwe schal be astorid in myn hond.

Update Bible Version
My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

New King James Version
My glory is fresh within me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.'

New Living Translation
New honors are constantly bestowed on me, and my strength is continually renewed.'

New Life Bible
My honor is always new to me, and my bow is new in my hand.'

New Revised Standard
my glory was fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

Revised Standard Version
my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

Young's Literal Translation
My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'My glory is ever new with me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.'

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "I always thought I would live a long life, growing old with my family around me. ¹⁹ I was like a healthy plant with roots that have plenty of water and branches that are wet with dew. ²⁰ I thought each new day would bring more honor and be full of new possibilities. ²¹ "In the past people listened to me. They waited quietly for my advice. ²² When I finished speaking, they had nothing more to say. My words fell gently on their ears. ²³ They waited for my words as they would for rain. They drank them in like rain in the springtime. ²⁴ I smiled at them, and they could hardly believe it. My smile made them feel better. ²⁵ I was their leader and made decisions about their future. I was like a king among his troops, comforting those who were sad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

glory: Job 29:14, Job 19:9, Genesis 45:13, Psalms 3:3

fresh: Heb. new

my bow: Genesis 49:24

renewed: Heb. changed, Psalms 103:5, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 4:16

Cross-References

Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought the girl into his mother's tent. Rebekah became his wife that day. Isaac loved her very much. So he was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 29:6
Then Jacob said, "How is he?" They answered, "He is well. Look, that is his daughter Rachel coming now with his sheep."

Genesis 29:7
Jacob said, "Look, it is still day and long before the sun sets. It is not yet time for the animals to be gathered together for the night. So give them water and let them go back into the field."

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children. I have earned them by working for you. You know that I served you well."

Hosea 12:12
"Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. There Israel worked for a wife. He kept sheep to get another wife.

1 Corinthians 13:7
Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.

2 Corinthians 5:14
The love of Christ controls us, because we know that one person died for everyone. So all have died.

Ephesians 5:2
Live a life of love. Love others just as Christ loved us. He gave himself for us—a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My glory [was],.... "Is" or "shall be";

fresh in me; or "new" g; renewed day by day, having fresh additions made unto it; which was true of Job's temporal honour from among men; as a prince and civil magistrate, he had the honour given him that was due unto him, and this was continually increasing; and also of his spiritual glory, which lay, as every good man's glory does, in the grace of God wrought in him, and in the righteousness of Christ put upon him, Psalms 45:9; which grace is renewed and increased in them by the Holy Spirit, and is therefore called the renewing of the Holy Ghost; and which righteousness is revealed "from faith to faith", Romans 1:17, from a lesser degree of it to a greater:

and my bow was renewed in my hand; "is" or "shall be"; meaning either his authority as a civil magistrate, increasing daily to the terror of evildoers, and to the praise, profit, and defence of them that did well; or his strength, as Gersom interprets it, his spiritual strength, as in Isaiah 40:31; where the same word is used as here; so that he grew stronger and stronger in faith and other graces, and went from strength to strength; the bow was a warlike instrument, and required strength to draw it, and is put for it; see Genesis 48:22.

g חדש "nova", Mercerus, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My glory was fresh in me - Margin, “new.” “As we say, the man shall not overlive himself.” Umbreit. The idea is, that he was not exhausted; he continued in vigor and strength. The image is probably taken from that suggested in the previous verse - from a tree, whose beauty and vigor were continued by the waters, and by the dew that lay on its branches.

And my bow - An emblem of vigor and strength. The ancients fought with the bow, and hence, a man who was able to keep his bow constantly drawn, was an image of undiminished and unwearied vigor; compare Genesis 49:24 : “But his bow abode in strength.”

Was renewed in my hand - Margin, as in Hebrew “changed.” The meaning is, that it constantly renewed its strength. The idea is taken from a tree, which “changes” by renewing its leaves, beauty, and vigor; Isaiah 9:10; compare Job 14:7. The sense is that his bow gathered strength in his hand. The figure is very common in Arabic poetry, many specimens of which may be seen in Schultens in loc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 29:20. My glory was fresh in me — My vegetative power was great; my glory - my splendid blossom, large and mellow fruit, was always in season, and in every season.

My bow was renewed — I was never without means to accomplish all my wishes. I had prosperity everywhere.