Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 Job again took up his discourse and said,

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

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

4 Just as I was in the days of my youth, When the protection of God was over my tent;

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

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

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

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

9 “The leaders stopped talking And put their hands on their mouths;