1. And Job again took up his parable, 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 shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
4. As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;
5. When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
6. When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
7. When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,
8. The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
9. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
10. The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.