Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:

2 “Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?

3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, || By His light I walk [through] darkness.

4 As I have been in days of my maturity, || And the counsel of God on my tent.

5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Around me—my young ones,

6 When washing my goings with butter, || And the firm rock [is] with me—streams of oil.

7 When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.

8 Youths have seen me, and they have been hidden, || And the aged have risen—they stood up.

9 Princes have kept in words, || And they place a hand on their mouth.