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| 1 And Job continued his parable and said, |
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| 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me; |
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| 3 When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; |
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| 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent, |
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| 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me; |
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| 6 When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ... |
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| 7 When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway, |
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| 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up; |
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| 9 Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth; |
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| 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. |
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| 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; |
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| 12 For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper. |
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| 13 The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. |
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| 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban. |
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| 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; |
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| 16 I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; |
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| 17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. |
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| 18 And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand; |
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| 19 My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; |
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| 20 My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand. |
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| 21 Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel: |
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| 22 After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them; |
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| 23 And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. |
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| 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance. |
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| 25 I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners. |
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