1. Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
2. Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
3. When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
4. As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
5. When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
6. When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
7. When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
9. The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
10. The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
11. The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: