Job 29:24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

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WEBBE

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

BSB

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

KJV

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

ASV

I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

BBE

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

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אֶשְׂחַק 'es·chak I laughed H7832 אֲלֵהֶם 'a·le·hem to them H413 לֹא lo' not H3808 יַאֲמִינוּ ya·'a·mi·nu they believed H539 וְאוֹר ve·'or and [the] light of H216 פָּנַי pa·nai face my H6440 לֹא lo' not H3808 יַפִּילוּן ya·pi·lun they made fall H5307

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–25

Being thus honoured and useful, Job had hoped to die in peace and honour, in a good old age. If such an expectation arise from lively faith in the providence and promise of God, it is well; but if from conceit of our own wisdom, and dependence on changeable, earthly things, it is ill grounded, and turns to sin. Every one that has the spirit of wisdom, has not the spirit of government; but Job had both. Yet he had the tenderness of a comforter. This he thought upon with pleasure, when he was himself a mourner. Our Lord Jesus is a King who hates iniquity, and upon whom the blessing of a world ready to perish comes. To Him let us give ear.

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