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Job 29:5

Verse 5 of 25. The 29th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Job 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;

3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

4as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

5when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

7when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

9The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.