- 1. And Job again took up his parable, and said,
- 2. Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
- 3. When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
- 4. As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
- 5. When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
- 6. When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
- 7. When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
- 8. The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
- 9. The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
- 10. The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- 11. For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:
- 12. Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
- 13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
- 14. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
- 15. I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
- 16. I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
- 17. And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- 18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
- 19. My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
- 20. My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
- 21. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
- 22. After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
- 23. And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
- 24. I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- 25. I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
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