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Job - ch 29 v 1 - 20
- And Job again took up his parable, and said,
- Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
- When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
- As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
- When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
- When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
- When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
- The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
- The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
- The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- For when the ear heard `me', then it blessed me; And when the eye saw `me', it gave witness unto me:
- Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
- The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
- I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice 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 needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
- And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
- My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
- My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
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