291Job 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;+3when his lamp shone on my head,and by his light I walked through darkness,+4as I was in the ripeness of my days,when the friendship of God was in my tent,+5when the Almighty was yet with me,and my children were around me,+6when my steps were washed with butter,and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,+7when I went out to the city gate,when I prepared my seat in the street.+8The young men saw me and hid themselves.The aged rose up and stood.+9The princes refrained from talking,and laid their hand on their mouth.+10The voice of the nobles was hushed,and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.+11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;and when the eye saw me, it commended me:+12Because I delivered the poor who cried,and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,+13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.+14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.My justice was as a robe and a diadem.+15I was eyes to the blind,and feet to the lame.+16I was a father to the needy.The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.+17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,and plucked the prey out of his teeth.+18Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house,I shall count my days as the sand.+19My root is spread out to the waters.The dew lies all night on my branch.+20My glory is fresh in me.My bow is renewed in my hand.’+21“Men listened to me, waited,and kept silence for my counsel.+22After my words they didn’t speak again.My speech fell on them.+23They waited for me as for the rain.Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.+24I smiled on them when they had no confidence.They didn’t reject the light of my face.+25I 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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