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1 - 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 shone on 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 in my tent,
5 - when the Almighty was yet with me,and my children were around me,
6 - when my steps were washed with butter,and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7 - when I went out to the city gate,when I prepared my seat in the street.
8 - The young men saw me and hid themselves.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 stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 - For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
12 - Because I delivered the poor who cried,and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13 - the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 to the lame.
16 - I was a father to the needy.The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
17 - I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 - Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house,I shall count my days as the sand.
19 - My root is spread out to the waters.The dew lies all night on my branch.
20 - My glory is fresh in me.My bow is renewed in my hand.'
21 - "Men listened to me, waited,and kept silence for my counsel.
22 - After my words they didn't speak again.My speech fell on them.
23 - They waited for me as for the rain.Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
24 - I smiled on them when they had no confidence.They didn't reject the light of my face.
25 - I chose out their way, and sat as chief.I lived as a king in the army,as one who comforts the mourners.

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