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29 Job again took up his parable, and said,

“Oh that I were as in the months of old,
    as in the days when God watched over me;
when his lamp shone on my head,
    and by his light I walked through darkness,
as I was in my prime,
    when the friendship of God was in my tent,
when the Almighty was yet with me,
    and my children were around me,
when my steps were washed with butter,
    and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

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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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