“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
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 thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past! so he brings in this account of his prosperity.
Commenting on Job 29:1-6
Oh that I were as in months past,.... Which is either an earnest wish for restoration to his former state of outward prosperity; which he might desire, not through impatience and discontent under his present circumstances, or from a carnal and worldly spirit; but either that the present reproach he lay under from his friends might be taken off, he observing that they accounted him...
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding. (o) He declares that man has as much of this heavenly wisdom as he shows by fearing God and departing from evil.
Commenting on Job 29:1-2