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 cream
and the rock(C) poured out streams of oil for me!

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