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Job 29

¹Job again took up his parable, and said,

²"Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

³When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

⁴As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;

⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

⁶When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

⁷When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

⁸The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;

⁹The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

¹⁰The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

¹²Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

¹³The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow`s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

¹⁶I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn`t know, I searched out.

¹⁷I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹⁸Then I said, `I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

¹⁹My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;

²⁰My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.`

²¹"Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

²²After my words they didn`t speak again; My speech fell on them.

²³They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

²⁴I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn`t reject the light of my face.

²⁵I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

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