Job 29

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 29:2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; 2
  • 29:16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 2
  • 29:3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness; 1
  • 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Job 29.2

    …hought I, ‘that it was with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me!’ (Job 29.2). 151. Then again, being loath and unwilling to perish, I began to compare my sin with ot…

  2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    A Brief Account of the Author’s Call to the Work of the Ministry cites Job 29.13

    …m that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy’ (Job 29.13). 275. At this therefore I rejoiced, yea, the tears of those whom God did awaken by my pr…

  3. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fourth Stage cites Job 29:3

    …g. Then said he, “His Candle shineth on my head, and by his light I go through darkness.” Job 29:3. In this light, therefore, he came to the end of the valley. Now I saw in my dream, that …

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Job 29: 16

    …er was Job. ‘I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.’ Job 29: 16. As magistrates are fathers, so especially the king, who is the head of magistrates, is a…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Job 29: 16

    …ke the good Samaritan, pour wine and oil into their wounds. ‘I was a father to the poor.’ Job 29: 16. ‘The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me.’ Ver 13. It is a great means…

  6. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    August cites Job 29:2

    …s the Christian, since Christ is our life! August 11 “Oh that I were as in months past.” (Job 29:2) Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard the present with dissa…