As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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Gill's Exposition
As I was in the days of my youth,.... Either taken literally, he being one like Obadiah, that feared God from his youth upward, Kg1 18:3; or figuratively, for his former state of prosperity, when he…
Barnes' Notes
As I was in the days of my youth - The word here rendered “youth” (חרף chôreph), properly means “autumn - from” (חרף châraph), to “pluck, pull,” as being the time when fruits ace gathered. Then it…
Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their…
Cambridge Bible
days of my youth lit. days of my autumn. It is doubtful if Job means to describe by this expression any period of his own age, namely his manhood. He rather compares his former time of prosperity to…
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