Job-29

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  • 1 And Job again took up his discourse, 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 upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
  • 4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
  • 5 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,
  • 6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
  • 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
  • 8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose 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 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
  • 12 because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
  • 13 The blessing of him who was about 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 like a robe and a turban.
  • 15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
  • 16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
  • 17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
  • 18 Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
  • 19 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,
  • 20 my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'
  • 21 "Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
  • 22 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
  • 23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
  • 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.
  • 25 I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
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