Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 And Job will add to lift up his parable, and say,

2 Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me?

3 In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness;

4 As I was in the days of my ripeness, in the intercourse of God upon my tent;

5 In the Almighty being yet with me, my youths round about me;

6 In washing my goings with butter, and the rock will pour out with me streams of oil;

7 In my going forth to the gate upon the city, in the street I shall prepare my seat.

8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the old men rose up and stood.

9 Chiefs held back in words, and they will put the hand to the mouth.