Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job continued to lift up his discourse and said,

2 “Oh that I were as in months gone by, As in the days when God kept me,

3 When His lamp shone over my head, And by His light I walked through darkness,

4 As I was in the prime of my days, When the intimate counsel with God was over my tent,

5 When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me,

6 When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

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

8 The young men saw me and hid, And the old men arose and stood.

9 The princes stopped talking And put their hands on their mouths;