- 1. ¶ MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said,
- 2. O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God took care of me;
- 3. When he put his worship high upon my head, when his lamp shone over me; and when by his light I walked through darkness.
- 4. O, that I were as in the days when I was in favor, when God abode in my tabernacle;
- 5. When the Almighty was yet round about me in my youth;
- 6. When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- 7. ¶ When I went out to the gate of the city and called on the people; and sat down like a poor man in the street,
- 8. The young men saw me and hid themselves; and the aged arose, and respected me.
- 9. The nobles held their peace, and laid their hands on their mouth.
- 10. The voice of the princes was restrained, and their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- 11. For when the ear heard me, then it praised me; and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me;
- 12. Because I delivered the poor out of distress, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
- 13. The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to rejoice.
- 14. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me like a robe and diadem of justice.
- 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- 16. I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- 17. And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and snatched the prey out of his teeth.
- 18. ¶ Then I said, I shall become straight like a reed, I shall deliver the poor and multiply my days like the sand of the seas.
- 19. My roots are planted by the waters, and the dew lies all night upon my boughs, and at the harvest season I shall be invited to the feast.
- 20. I shall take my bow with me, and renew it in my hand.
- 21. Men listened to me, and waited, and hearkened to my counsel.
- 22. And from my words they departed not, and my speech was pleasing to them.
- 23. They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain.
- 24. If I ridiculed them, they did not take offense; and they did not turn from the light of my countenance.
- 25. I searched out their ways, and then returned and dwelt as a king in his army, like one who comforts the mourners.
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