DRB: Part 2 Patriarchs 2

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DRB: Part 2 Patriarchs 2

Job 29

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Job 29

Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed him.

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[1]⁠

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

[2]⁠

Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

[3]⁠

When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

[4]⁠

As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

[5]⁠

When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

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[6]⁠

When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

[7]⁠

When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

[8]⁠

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.

[9]⁠

The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

[10]⁠

The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.

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[11]⁠

The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

[12]⁠

Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.

[13]⁠

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

[14]⁠

I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

[15]⁠

I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

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[16]⁠

I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

[17]⁠

I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

[18]⁠

And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

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My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

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My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

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[21]⁠

They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

[22]⁠

To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

[23]⁠

They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

[24]⁠

If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.

[25]⁠

If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

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