“If he actually searched for his former happiness, that was in order to show the providence of God; this is clear when he says, "In the days when God watched over me." Then he gives evidence of this godly watch. "When his lamp," he says, "shone over my head." This means, you will make the light of my lamp shine, becaus…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 29:2A-5
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3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
— Job 29:3 —
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;