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 above my head, And by His light I walked through darkness;

4 As I was in the days of my youth, When the converse 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 broad place,

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;