Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job continued his speech:

2 O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

3 when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

4 just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

6 when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

7 When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

8 the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;

9 the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;