1. Job took up his theme again and said:
2. Oh, that I were as in the months past,as in the days when God watched over me:
3. While he kept his lamp shining above my head,and by his light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in my flourishing days,when God sheltered my tent;
5. When the Almighty was still with me,and my children were round about me;
6. When my footsteps were bathed in cream,and the rock flowed with streams of oil.
7. Whenever I went out to the gate of the cityand took my seat in the square,