New English Translation

Job 29:1-6

1 1Then Job continued his speech:

2“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

6when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

Notes

1. Job 29:1 Now that the debate with his friends is over, Job concludes with a soliloquy, just as he had begun with one. Here he does not take into account his friends or their arguments. The speech has three main sections: Job’s review of his former circumstances (29:1-25); Job’s present misery (30:1-31); and Job’s vindication of his life (31:1-40). ↩