Job Recalls His Days of Divine Favor

Job 29:1-6

And 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 shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!