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\c 29
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\v 1 Job resumed speaking and said,
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\q
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\v 2 “Oh, that I were as I was in the past months
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\q when God cared for me,
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\q
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\v 3 when his lamp shined on my head,
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\q and when I walked through darkness by his light.
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\q
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\v 4 Oh, that I were as I was in the ripeness of my days
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\q when the friendship of God was on my tent,
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\q
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\v 5 when the Almighty was yet with me,
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\q and my children were around me,
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\q
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\v 6 when my way was awash in cream,
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\q and the rock poured me out streams of oil!
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\q
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\v 7 When I went out to the city gate,
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\q when I sat in my place in the city square,
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\q
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\v 8 the young men saw me and kept their distance from me in respect,
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\q and the aged people rose and stood for me.
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\v 9 The princes used to refrain from talking when I came;
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\q they would lay their hand on their mouths.
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\q
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\v 10 The voices of the noblemen were hushed,
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\q and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouths.
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\v 11 For after their ears heard me, they would then bless me;
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\q after their eyes saw me, they would then give witness to me and approve of me
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\q
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\v 12 because I used to rescue the poor person who cried out,
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\q and also those without fathers, who had no one to help him.
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\q
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\v 13 The blessing of him who was about to perish came on me;
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\q I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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\q
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\v 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
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\q my justice was like a robe and a turban.
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\q
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\v 15 I was eyes to blind people;
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\q I was feet to lame people.
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\q
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\v 16 I was a father to needy people;
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\q I would examine the case even of one whom I did not know.
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\q
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\v 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous man;
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\q I plucked the victim out from between his teeth.
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\q
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\v 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest;
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\q I will multiply my days like the grains of sand.
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\q
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\v 19 My roots are spread out to the waters,
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\q and dew lies all night on my branches.
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\q
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\v 20 The honor in me is always fresh,
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\q and the bow of my strength is always new in my hand.
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\q
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\v 21 To me men listened; they waited for me;
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\q they stayed silent to hear my advice.
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\q
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\v 22 After my words were done, they did not speak again;
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\q my speech dropped like water on them.
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\q
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\v 23 They always waited for me as they waited for rain;
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\q they opened their mouth wide to drink in my words, as they would do for the latter rain.
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\q
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\v 24 I smiled on them when they did not expect it;
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\q they did not reject the light of my face.
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\q
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\v 25 I selected their way and sat as their chief;
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\q I lived like a king in his army,
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\q like one who comforts mourners at a funeral.
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