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Job 29:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

When the Almighty was yet with me. These are terribly sad words. Job, in his afflictions, has come to look on the Almighty as no longer "with him "—no longer on his side; but rather against him, an enemy (see Job 6:4; Job 7:19; Job 9:17; Job 10:16, etc.

). When my children were about me (comp. Job 1:2, Job 1:4, Job 1:5).

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