1. Job again took up his parable, 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 lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
4. as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5. when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,