“1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as
[in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; 3 When his
candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through]
darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God
[was] upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when]
my children [were] about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and
the rock poured me out rivers of oil;”
“7 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my
seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the
aged arose, [and] stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid
[their] hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their
tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard [me],
then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: 12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him
that had] none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to
perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe
and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I
searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the
spoil out of his teeth.”
“18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my]
days as the sand. 19 My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew
lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow
was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept
silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my
speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and
they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. 24 [If] I laughed
on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they
cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a
king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.” (Job 29:1-25
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