Job’s Final Claim of Innocence

29 Job continued his discourse, saying:

If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,
when his lamp shone above my head,
and I walked through darkness by his light!(A)
I would be as I was in the days of my youth
when God’s friendship(B) rested on my tent,
when the Almighty was still with me
and my children were around me,
when my feet were bathed in curds
and the rock(C) poured out streams of oil for me!

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Job’s previous blessing

29 Job took up his subject again:

Oh, that life was like it used to be,
        like days when God watched over me;
    when his lamp shone on my head,
        I walked by his light in the dark;
    when I was in my prime;
        when God’s counsel was in my tent;
    when the Almighty was with me,
        my children around me;
    when my steps were washed with cream
        and a rock poured out pools of oil for me.

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