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Job 29

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¹And Job again took up his parable, and said, ²Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; ³When his lamp shined upon 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 upon my tent; ⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me; ⁶When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil! ⁷When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, ⁸The young men saw me and hid themselves, And 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 cleaved to the roof of their mouth. ¹¹For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me: ¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. ¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon 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 was I to the lame. ¹⁶I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth. ¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: ¹⁹My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch: ²⁰My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand. ²¹Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel. ²²After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them. ²³And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wideasfor the latter rain. ²⁴I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down. ²⁵I chose out their way, and sataschief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.