John Trapp on Job 29:2

Verſe 2.Secundum menſes antiquitati[illegible: 1 letter] vel antiaetatis. Oh that I were as in months puſt] O mihi praeteritos, &c. Though Job deſireth not ſo much to be young again, (which to be, Chiron and Cato are ſaid ſeriouſly to have refuſed) as to proſper again; for this is that we all covet: but we ſhrink in the ſhoulder, when called to carry the croſs. To ſhew his earneſt deſire, he redoubleth his wiſh, as in the dayes, &c. and God anſwered him to the full, by redoubling upon him his former proſperity; not for dayes and months, but for divers years together: and by giving him again all things richly to enjoy: So liberal is the Lord to his, that he many times giveth them more then heart can wiſh.

When God preſerved me] That he acknowledged God to be the author of his earthly felicity, was well done: but not ſo well to think that God preſerved him not, becauſe he proſpered him not: ſee the like verſe 5. God oft wraps himſelf up in a cloud, and will not be ſeen till afterwards; but his hand is ever upon all them for good, that ſeek him, Ezek. 8.22. he knoweth their ſouls in adverſity, Pſal 31.7.