Job 29:1-9 ▼

1 Job again took up his parable, and said,

2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

7 when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.