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- AND JOB again took up his discussion and said,
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- Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, [Eccl. 7:10.]
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- When His lamp shone above and upon my head and by His light I walked through darkness;
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- As I was in the [prime] ripeness of my days, when the friendship and counsel of God were over my tent,
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- When the Almighty was yet with me and my children were about me,
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- When my steps [through rich pasturage] were washed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
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- When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the street [the broad place for the council at the city's gate],
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- The young men saw me and hid themselves; the aged rose up and stood;
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- The princes refrained from talking and laid their hands on their mouths;
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- The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths.
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- For when the ear heard, it called me happy and blessed me; and when the eye saw, it testified for me [approvingly],
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- Because I delivered the poor who cried, the fatherless and him who had none to help him.
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- The blessing of him who was about 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 or clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a turban or a diadem or a crown!
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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 needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out.
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- And I broke the jaws or the big teeth of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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- Then I said, I shall die in or beside my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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- My root is spread out and open to the waters, and the dew lies all night upon my branch.
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- My glory and honor are fresh in me [being constantly renewed], and my bow gains [ever] new strength in my hand.
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- Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
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- After I spoke, they did not speak again, and my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].
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- And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain.
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- I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and their depression did not cast down the light of my countenance.
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- I chose their way [for them] and sat as [their] chief, and dwelt like a king among his soldiers, like one who comforts mourners.
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