1. Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said,
2. Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3. When his lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;
5. When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6. When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7. When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the open square!
8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9. The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10. The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
12. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.