Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job continued his parable and said,

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

3 When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

5 When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

6 When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

7 When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

9 Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;