Job 29:1–11

Job’s Summary Defense

29 And Job again ztook up his discourse, and said:

2  “Oh, that I were as in the months of old,

as in the days when God watched over me,

3  when his alamp shone upon my head,

and by his light I walked through darkness,

4  as I was in my prime,1

when the bfriendship of God was upon my tent,

5  when the Almighty was yet with me,

when my cchildren were all around me,

6  when my steps were dwashed with ebutter,

and fthe rock poured out for me streams of goil!

7  When I went out to hthe 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 ilaid their hand on their mouth;

10  the voice of the nobles was hushed,

and their jtongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

11  When the ear heard, it called me blessed,

and when the eye saw, it approved,