Job:29

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

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