Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; (29:2)

When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness; (29:3)

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; (29:4)

When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me; (29:5)

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (29:6)

When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! (29:7)

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up (29:8)

The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth (29:9)

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth (29:10)

When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: (29:11)

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him (29:12)

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy (29:13)

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem (29:14)

I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame (29:15)

I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out (29:16)

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth (29:17)

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand (29:18)

My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch (29:19)

My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand (29:20)

Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel (29:21)

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them (29:22)

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain (29:23)

[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down (29:24)

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners (29:25)

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