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| [1]So Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying |
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| [2]O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me |
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| [3]When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse |
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| [4]As it stoode with me when I was young, when God prospered my house |
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| [5]When the almightie was yet with me, when my children stoode about me |
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| [6]When my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle |
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| [7]When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete |
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| [8]The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp |
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| [9]The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth |
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| [10]The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth |
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| [11]When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me |
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| [12]For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym |
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| [13]The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce |
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| [14]And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne |
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| [15]I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame |
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| [16]I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently |
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| [17]I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth |
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| [18]Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande |
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| [19]For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne |
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| [20]Myne honour encreased more and more, & my bow was euer the stronger in my hande |
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| [21]Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell |
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| [22]After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them |
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| [23]They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as [the grounde doeth to receaue] the latter shoure |
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| [24]When I laughed, they beleued it not, & the light of my countenaunce would they not put out |
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| [25]When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour |
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