Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,

2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

3 When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

5 When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;

6 When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,

8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;

9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;