Job:29

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* Job also added , taking up his parable , and said : * Who will grant me , that I might be according to the months past , according to the days in which God kept me ? * When his lamp shined over my head , and I walked by his light in darkness ? * As I was in the days of my youth , when God was secretly in my tabernacle ? * When the Almighty was with me : and my servants round about me ? * When I washed my feet with butter , and the rock poured me out rivers of oil ? * When I went out to the gate of the city , and in the street they prepared me a chair ? * The young men saw me , and hid themselves : and the old men rose up and stood . * The princes ceased to speak , and laid the finger on their mouth . * The rulers held their peace , and their tongue cleaved to their throat . * The ear that heard me blessed me , and the eye that saw me gave witness to me : * Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out ; and the fatherless that had no helper . * The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me , and I comforted the heart of the widow . * I was clad with justice : and I clothed myself with my judgment , as with a robe and a diadem . * I was an eye to the blind , and a foot to the lame . * I was the father of the poor : and the cause which I knew not , I searched out most diligently . * I broke the jaws of the wicked man , and out of his teeth I took away the prey . * And I said : I shall die in my nest , and as a palm tree shall multiply my days . * My root is opened beside the waters , and dew shall continue in my harvest . * My glory shall always be renewed , and my bow in my hand shall be repaired . * They that heard me , waited for my sentence , and being attentive held their peace at my counsel . * To my words they durst add nothing , and my speech dropped upon them . * They waited for me as for rain , and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower . * If at any time I laughed on them , they believed not , and the light of my countenance fell not on earth . * If I had a mind to go to them , I sat first , and when I sat as a king , with his army standing about him , yet I was a comforter of them that mourned .

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