1. Then Job again took up his discourse and said,
2. “O that I were as in the months before, as in the days when God watched over me,
3. when his shining lamp was over my head— by his light I walked through darkness—
4. as when I was in the days of my prime, when God’s confiding was over my house,
5. when Shaddaiwas still with me, my children were all around me,