Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 And Job continued and said in his parable,
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Job again took up his discourse and said:
2 Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!
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"O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3 As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.
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when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
4 when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.
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when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;
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when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;
6 when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
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when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
7 When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.
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When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.
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the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood;
9 And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.
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the nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths;
10 And they that heard blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.
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the voices of princes were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11 For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.
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When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved;
12 For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.
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because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
13 Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.
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The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
15 I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16 I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.
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I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
17 And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
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I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
18 And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.
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Then I thought, "I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;
19 root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.
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my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches;
20 My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.
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my glory was fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'
21 heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.
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"They listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.
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After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew.
23 As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they my speech.
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They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
24 Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe ; and the light of my face has not failed.
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I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.
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I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
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