1 Then Job continued his speech:
2 “O that I could be as I was in the months now gone,in the days when God watched over me,
3 when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head,and by his light I walked through darkness;
4 just as I was in my most productive time,when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
5 when the Almighty was still with meand my children were around me;
6 when my steps were bathed with butterand the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
7 When I went out to the city gateand secured my seat in the public square,