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Job - ch 29 v 1 - 20
- And Job continued his parable and said,
- Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
- When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
- As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
- When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
- When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
- When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
- The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
- Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
- The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
- When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
- For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
- The blessing of him that was perishing 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 mantle and a turban.
- I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
- I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
- And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
- My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
- My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
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