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| [1]MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said, |
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| [2]O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God took care of me; |
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| [3]When he put his worship high upon my head, when his lamp shone over me; and when by his light I walked through darkness. |
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| [4]O, that I were as in the days when I was in favor, when God abode in my tabernacle; |
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| [5]When the Almighty was yet round about me in my youth; |
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| [6]When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil |
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| [7]When I went out to the gate of the city and called on the people; and sat down like a poor man in the street, |
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| [8]The young men saw me and hid themselves; and the aged arose, and respected me. |
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| [9]The nobles held their peace, and laid their hands on their mouth. |
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| [10]The voice of the princes was restrained, and their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouth. |
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| [11]For when the ear heard me, then it praised me; and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me; |
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| [12]Because I delivered the poor out of distress, and the fatherless who had none to help him. |
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| [13]The blessing of him who was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to rejoice. |
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| [14]I put on righteousness, and it clothed me like a robe and diadem of justice. |
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| [15]I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. |
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| [16]I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. |
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| [17]And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and snatched the prey out of his teeth |
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| [18]Then I said, I shall become straight like a reed, I shall deliver the poor and multiply my days like the sand of the seas. |
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| [19]My roots are planted by the waters, and the dew lies all night upon my boughs, and at the harvest season I shall be invited to the feast. |
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| [20]I shall take my bow with me, and renew it in my hand. |
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| [21]Men listened to me, and waited, and hearkened to my counsel. |
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| [22]And from my words they departed not, and my speech was pleasing to them. |
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| [23]They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain. |
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| [24]If I ridiculed them, they did not take offense; and they did not turn from the light of my countenance. |
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| [25]I searched out their ways, and then returned and dwelt as a king in his army, like one who comforts the mourners |
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