Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

2 Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?

3 At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.

4 I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.

5 At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.

6 Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.

7 When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.

8 The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.

9 The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.