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| [1]And Job continued and said in his parable, |
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| [2]Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me! |
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| [3]As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness. |
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| [4]As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house. |
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| [5]When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me; |
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| [6]when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk. |
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| [7]When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets. |
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| [8]The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up. |
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| [9]And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth. |
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| [10]And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat. |
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| [11]For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside. |
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| [12]For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper. |
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| [13]Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me. |
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| [14]Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle. |
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| [15]I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame. |
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| [16]I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not. |
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| [17]And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. |
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| [18]And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while. |
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| [19]My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop. |
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| [20]My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand. |
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| [21]Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel. |
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| [22]At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them. |
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| [23]As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech. |
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| [24]Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed. |
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| [25]I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners. |
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