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And Job again took up his discourse, and said: |
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"Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; |
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when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; |
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as I was in my autumn days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; |
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when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; |
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when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! |
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When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square, |
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the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; |
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the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth; |
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the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. |
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When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved; |
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because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him. |
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The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. |
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. |
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. |
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I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. |
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I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth. |
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Then I thought, `I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, |
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my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches, |
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my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.' |
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"Men listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. |
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After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them. |
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They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain. |
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I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down. |
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I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. |
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