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1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
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Job again took up his discourse and said:
2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept 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 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
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when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
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when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
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when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;
6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
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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 out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
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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 the old men rose up and stood.
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the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood;
9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
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the nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths;
10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
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the voices of princes were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
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When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved;
12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.
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because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
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The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
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I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
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I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
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Then I thought, "I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;
19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
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my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches;
20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
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my glory was fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'
21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
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"They listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
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After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew.
23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
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They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
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I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.
25 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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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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