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And Job again took up his parable, 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 shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; |
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As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent; |
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When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me; |
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When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil! |
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When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, |
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The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood; |
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The princes refrained 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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For when the ear heard {cf15i me}, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw {cf15i me}, it gave witness unto me: |
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him. |
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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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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a diadem. |
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. |
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I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. |
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And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. |
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand: |
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My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lieth all night upon my branch: |
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My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand. |
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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. |
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. |
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And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. |
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If I laughed on them, they believed {cf15i it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. |
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I chose out their way, and sat {cf15i as} chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. |
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