1. And Job continued his parable and said,
2. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
3. When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
5. When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
6. When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
7. When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;