Moreover
Job continued his parable, and said,
02 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the
days when God preserved me;
03 When his candle shined upon my head, and when
by his light I walked through darkness;
04 As I was in the days of my youth, when the
secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
05 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my
children were about me;
06 When I washed my steps with butter, and the
rock poured me out rivers of oil;
07 When I went out to the gate through the city,
when I prepared my seat in the street!
08 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and
the aged arose, and stood up.
09 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.
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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.
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