Job 29:2
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- 2 The optative is here expressed with מִי־יִתְּנֵנִי (mi-yitténeni, “who will give me”), meaning, “O that I [could be] …” (see §151.b).
- 3 The preposition ךּ (kaf) is used here in an expression describing the state desired, especially in the former time (see §118.u).
- 4 The expression is literally “months of before [or of old; or past].” The word קֶדֶם (qedem) is intended here to be temporal and not spatial; it means days that preceded the present.
- 5 The construct state (“days of”) governs the independent sentence that follows (see §130.d): “as the days of […] God used to watch over me.”
- 6 The imperfect verb here has a customary nuance—“when God would watch over me” (back then), or “when God used to watch over me.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
as in the days when God watched over me,
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“How I long for the months gone by,
for the days when God watched over me,
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,
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NLTNew Living Translation
“I long for the years gone by
when God took care of me,
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“O that I were as in the months before,
as in the days when God watched over me,
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KJV 1900King James Version
Oh that I were as in months past,
As in the days when God preserved me;
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