New Revised Standard Version
when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;

Contemporary English Version
and all of my children were nearby.

New American Bible
When the Almighty was still with me, and my children were round about me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

the Almighty

Job 23:3,8-10 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Deuteronomy 33:27-29 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought. . . .

Joshua 1:9 Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.

Judges 6:12,13 The angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said: The Lord is with thee, O most valiant of men. . . .

Psalm 30:7 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

Psalm 43:2 For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 44:8,9 But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us. . . .

Songs 2:4 He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.

Songs 3:1,2 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not. . . .

Jeremiah 14:8 O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge?

Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

my children

Job 1:2-5 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. . . .

Job 42:13-16 And he had seven sons, and three daughters. . . .

Psalm 127:3-5 Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. . . .

Psalm 128:3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.