Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 Job took up his theme again and said:

2 Oh, that I were as in the months past, as in the days when God watched over me:

3 While he kept his lamp shining above my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

4 As I was in my flourishing days, when God sheltered my tent;

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

6 When my footsteps were bathed in cream, and the rock flowed with streams of oil.

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

8 The young men saw me and withdrew, and the elders rose up and stood;

9 Officials refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;