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