1. 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 shone on my head,and by his light I walked through darkness,
4. as I was in the ripeness of my days,when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5. when the Almighty was yet with me,and my children were around me,
6. when my steps were washed with butter,and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7. when I went out to the city gate,when I prepared my seat in the street.
8. The young men saw me and hid themselves.The aged rose up and stood.
9. The princes refrained from talking,and laid their hand on their mouth.
10. The voice of the nobles was hushed,and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11. For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
12. Because I delivered the poor who cried,and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,