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(1) Moreover Job continued his parable, and said (2) Oh that I were as [in] months past , as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; (3) When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness (4) As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; (5) When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me; (6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil (7) When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. (9) The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. (10) The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth (11) When the ear heard [me,] then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me,] it gave witness to me: (12) Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless , and [him that had] none to help him. (13) The blessing of him that was ready 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 judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. (15) I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. (16) [I was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. (17) And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth (18) Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand. (19) My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch (20) My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand (21) Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. (22) After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. (23) And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. (24) [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. (25) I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army , as one [that] comforteth the mourners.