1. And Iyoḇ again took up his discourse, and said,
2. “Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when Eloah protected me;
3. when His lamp shone on my head, when I walked in the dark by His light;
4. as I was in the days of my autumn, when the intimacy of Eloah was on my tent;
5. when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;
6. when my steps were bathed with cream, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me.
7. When I went out to the gate by the city, to take my seat in the open square,
8. the young men saw me and hid, and the aged rose up, they stood;
9. rulers held back their words, and laid a hand on their mouth;
10. the voice of leaders was hushed, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.
11. For when the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it gave witness of me;