Job 29
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| 1 | Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and said, |
| 2 | O that I were as in moneths past, as in the dayes when God preserued me. |
| 3 | When his candle shined vpon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkenesse: |
| 4 | As I was in the dayes of my youth, when the secret of God was vpon my tabernacle: |
| 5 | When the Almightie was yet with me, when my children were about me: |
| 6 | When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle: |
| 7 | When I went out to the gate, through the citie, when I prepared my seate in the street. |
| 8 | The yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and the aged arose, and stood vp. |
| 9 | The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. |
| 10 | The Nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. |
| 11 | When the eare heard mee, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gaue witnesse to me: |
| 12 | Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. |
| 13 | The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me: and I caused the widowes heart to sing for ioy. |
| 14 | I put on righteousnesse, and it clothed me: my iudgement was as a robe and a diademe. |
| 15 | I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. |
| 16 | I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out. |
| 17 | And I brake the iawes of the wicked, and pluckt the spoile out of his teeth. |
| 18 | Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand. |
| 19 | My roote was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night vpon my branch. |
| 20 | My glory was fresh in mee, and my bow was renewed in my hand. |
| 21 | Unto me men gaue eare, and waited, and kept silence at my counsell. |
| 22 | After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them, |
| 23 | And they waited for me as for the raine, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter raine. |
| 24 | If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not, and the light of my countenance they cast not downe. |
| 25 | I chose out their way, and sate chiefe, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. |