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