1. And Job again took up his discourse and said,
2. "Oh that I were as in months gone by, As in the days when God watched over me;
3. When His lamp shone over my head, And by His light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in the prime of my days, When the friendship of God was over my tent;
5. When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;
6. When my steps were bathed in butter, And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
7. "When I went out to the gate of the city, When I took my seat in the square,
8. The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the old men arose and stood.