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OET (OET-RV) How I wish for my life in the months of the past,
⇔ ≈in the days when God watched over me.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
מִֽי־יִתְּנֵ֥נִי כְיַרְחֵי
who? long,I as,months
See how you translated the expression Who will give in 11:5–6. Alternate translation: “Oh that I were as I was in the months of”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
כְיַרְחֵי־קֶ֑דֶם כִּ֝ימֵ֗י אֱל֣וֹהַּ יִשְׁמְרֵֽנִי
as,months gone_by as,days god watched_over,me
Job is using the terms months and days to refer to a specific time. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to be as I was in time past, as in the time when God kept me”
29:2 Although elsewhere Job uses the Hebrew shamar to describe what he perceived as God’s oppressive surveillance (10:14; 13:27; 14:16), here it refers to God’s kindly care (“watch(es) over,” Ps 121:3-8).
OET (OET-RV) How I wish for my life in the months of the past,
⇔ ≈in the days when God watched over me.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.