“What do the words "he adds at the beginning of his speech" mean? It is not that he completes his speeches, but he comes back to his starting point, without allowing his adversaries to interrupt him or to begin new arguments. What does he say? I would like to live one month of my old happiness in order to shut your mou…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 29:2A
Original
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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In context
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
— Job 29:2 —
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;