2 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, 3 when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness, 4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent, 5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
Job 29:2–5
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Proverbs 4:2–4
2 For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive. 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother, 4 he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
Job 23:16–17
16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. 17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Odes of Solomon 21:4–6
4 And increasingly helpful to me was the thought of the Lord, and His fellowship in incorruption: (ODE) 5 And I was lifted up in His light; and I served before Him, (ODE) 6 And I became near to Him, praising and confessing Him; (ODE)
Sirach 51:9–11
9 I lifted up my prayer from the earth, and prayed for deliverance from death. (WEB) 10 I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not forsake me in the days of affliction, in the time when there was no help against the proud. (WEB) 11 I will praise your name con… (WEB)
Job 35:9–11
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. 10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, 11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Job 31:17–19
17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless— 18 though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow— 19 if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
Odes of Solomon 35:6–8
6 And I was carried like a child by his mother: and He gave me milk, the dew of the Lord: (ODE) 7 And I grew great by His bounty, and rested in His perfection, (ODE) 8 And I spread out my hands in the lifting up of my soul: and I was made right with the Most High, and I was rede… (ODE)
Psalms of Solomon 1:2–4
2 Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me; I said, He will hearken to me for I am full of righteousness. (PSS) 3 I thought in my heart that I was full of righteousness, Because I was well off and had become rich in children. (PSS) 4 Their wealth spread to the whole earth,… (PSS)
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