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Job - ch 29 v 1 - 20
- 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 shone on 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 in my tent,
- when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
- when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
- when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
- The young men saw me and hid themselves. 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 stuck to the roof of their mouth.
- For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
- Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
- the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 to the lame.
- I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
- I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
- My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
- My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'
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