Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job again took up his discourse, 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 shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

5 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

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