¹ Job continued his discourse: ² “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, ³ when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness! ⁴ Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God`s intimate friendship blessed my house, ⁵ when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me, ⁶ when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil. ⁷ “When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square, ⁸ the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;