1. Then Job continued his speech:
2. “O that I could be as I was in the months now gone,in the days when God watched over me,
3. when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head,and by his light I walked through darkness;
4. just as I was in my most productive time,when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
5. when the Almighty was still with meand my children were around me;
6. when my steps were bathed with butterand the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
7. When I went out to the city gateand secured my seat in the public square,
8. the young men would see me and step aside,and the old men would get up and remain standing;
9. the chief men refrained from talkingand covered their mouths with their hands;
10. the voices of the nobles fell silent,and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11. “As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me,and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,