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Job Wishes for the Old Days

29 Then Job continued with his discourse:

“I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago;
    when God used to watch over me,
when his lamp used to shine over my head,
    so I could walk through the dark,
like when I was in my prime
    and God trusted me with his secrets![a]

“The Almighty was still with me back then,
    and my children were still around me.
I was successful wherever I went,[b]
    and even the rocks poured out streams of olive oil for me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:4 Lit. God’s counsel was over my tent
  2. Job 29:6 Lit. When my feet were bathed in cream