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Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;
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When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
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As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;
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When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;
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When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up
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The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth
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The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth
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When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame
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I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand
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My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch
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My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand
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Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them
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And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain
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[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down
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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners
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