As I was in the days of my youth: when [a]God’s providence was upon my tabernacle:

When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children round about me:

when I washed my paths [b]with butter, and when the rock poured me out rivers of oil:

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:4 That is, seemed by evident tokens to be more present with me.
  2. Job 29:6 By these similitudes he declareth the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had none occasion to be such a sinner as they accused him.

Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
    when God’s intimate friendship(A) blessed my house,(B)
when the Almighty was still with me
    and my children(C) were around me,(D)
when my path was drenched with cream(E)
    and the rock(F) poured out for me streams of olive oil.(G)

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