Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And 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 As I was in the prime of my days, When the friendship of 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 themselves, And the old men arose and stood.

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