Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 29:2

2. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me :

To wit, from all those miseries which now I feel. This he desires, not only for his own Ease and comfort, but also for the vindication of his Reputation, and of the honour of Religion, which suffered by his means: For as his calamities were the only ground of all their hard Speeches and censures of him, as a man for saken and hated by God, so he rightly judged that this ground being removed, and his prosperity restored, his Friends would take it for a token of Gods favour to him, and beget in them a milder and better opinion of him.