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The Book of Job.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

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[1]	AND Job again took up his parable, and said,
[2]	Oh that I were as in the months of old As in the days when God watched over me;
[3]	When his lamp shined upon 1 my head. And by his light I walked through darkness;
[4]	As I was in the 2 ripeness of my days, When the friendship 3 of God was upon my tent;
[5]	When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
[6]	When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
[7]	When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, 4
[8]	The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
[9]	The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
[10]	The voice of the nobles was hushed, 5 And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
[11]	For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:
[12]	Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that 6 had none to help him.
[13]	The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the window’s heart to sing for joy.
[14]	I put on righteousness, and it clothed 7 me; My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 8
[15]	I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
[16]	I was a father to the needy: And the 9 cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
[17]	And I brake the jaws 10 of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
[18]	Then I said, I shall die in 11 my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
[19]	My root is spread 12 out to 13 the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
[20]	My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
[21]	Unto me men gave ear, and waited And kept silence for my counsel.
[22]	After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
[23]	And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
[24]	I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
[25]	I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

Note 1. Or, above. [back]

Note 2. Heb. my days of autumn. [back]

Note 3. Or, counsel. [back]

Note 4. Or, broad place. [back]

Note 5. Heb. hid. [back]

Note 6. Or, and him that had &c. [back]

Note 7. Or, clothed itself with me. [back]

Note 8. Or, turban. [back]

Note 9. Or, the cause which I knew not. [back]

Note 10. Heb. great teeth. [back]

Note 11. Or, beside.Heb. with. [back]

Note 12. Heb. opened. [back]

Note 13. Or, by. [back]

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