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Iob 29

¹Moreouer Iob continued his parable, and said,

²O that I were as in moneths past, as in the dayes when God preserued me.

³When his candle shined vpon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkenesse:

⁴As I was in the dayes of my youth, when the secret of God was vpon my tabernacle:

⁵When the Almightie was yet with me, when my children were about me:

⁶When I washed my steps with butter, and the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:

⁷When I went out to the gate, through the citie, when I prepared my seate in the street.

⁸The yong men saw me, and hid themselues: and the aged arose, and stood vp.

⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

¹⁰The Nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

¹¹When the eare heard mee, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gaue witnesse to me:

¹²Because I deliuered the poore that cried, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

¹³The blessing of him that was readie to perish, came vpon me: and I caused the widowes heart to sing for ioy.

¹⁴I put on righteousnesse, and it clothed me: my iudgement was as a robe and a diademe.

¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

¹⁶I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.

¹⁷And I brake the iawes of the wicked, and pluckt the spoile out of his teeth.

¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.

¹⁹My roote was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night vpon my branch.

²⁰My glory was fresh in mee, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

²¹Unto me men gaue eare, and waited, and kept silence at my counsell.

²²After my words they spake not againe, & my speach dropped vpon them,

²³And they waited for me as for the raine, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter raine.

²⁴If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not, and the light of my countenance they cast not downe.

²⁵I chose out their way, and sate chiefe, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.