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