Job 29:1-10

English Standard Version

² “Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
    as in the days when God watched over me,
³ when his ^(B)lamp shone upon my head,
    and by his light I walked through darkness,
⁴ as I was in my prime,^[a]
    when the ^(C)friendship of God was upon my tent,
⁵ when the Almighty was yet with me,
    when my ^(D)children were all around me,
⁶ when my steps were ^(E)washed with ^(F)butter,
    and ^(G)the rock poured out for me streams of ^(H)oil!
⁷ When I went out to ^(I)the gate of the city,
    when I prepared my seat in the square,
⁸ the young men saw me and withdrew,
    and the aged rose and stood;
⁹ the princes refrained from talking
    and ^(J)laid their hand on their mouth;
¹⁰ the voice of the nobles was hushed,
    and their ^(K)tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.