### Darby's English Translation

Job 28

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 29
| And Job continued his parable and said,
| Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
| When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;
| As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
| When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
| When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
| When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
| The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;
| Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
| The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
| When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;
| For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
| The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
| I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
| I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
| I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
| And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
| And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
| My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
| My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
| Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
| After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
| And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
| [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
| I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

Job 30

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