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Job 28

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 29
#### 1 | And Job 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;
#### 3 | When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
#### 4 | As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
#### 5 | When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
#### 6 | When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
#### 7 | When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
#### 8 | The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
#### 9 | The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
#### 10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
#### 11 | For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:
#### 12 | Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, 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 justice 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 needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
#### 17 | And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey 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 is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
#### 20 | My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
#### 21 | Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
#### 22 | After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
#### 23 | And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
#### 24 | I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
#### 25 | I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 30

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