| 1절 | Job further continued his discourse, and said：
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| 2절 | Oh, that I were as in months past, As in the days when God watched over me;
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| 3절 | When His lamp shone upon my head, And when by His light I walked through darkness;
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| 4절 | Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
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| 5절 | When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me;
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| 6절 | When my steps were bathed with cream, And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
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| 7절 | \"When I went out to the gate by the city, When I took my seat in the open square,
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| 8절 | The young men saw me and hid, And the aged arose and stood;
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| 9절 | The princes refrained from talking, And put their hand on their mouth;
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| 10절 | The voice of nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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| 11절 | When the ear heard, then it blessed me, And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
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| 12절 | Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
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| 13절 | The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, And I caused the widow\'s heart to sing for joy.
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| 14절 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice was like a robe and a turban.
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| 15절 | I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.
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| 16절 | I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.
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| 17절 | I broke the fangs of the wicked, And plucked the victim from his teeth.
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| 18절 | \"Then I said, \'I shall die in my nest, And multiply my days as the sand.
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| 19절 | My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lies all night on my branch.
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| 20절 | My glory is fresh within me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.\'
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| 21절 | \"Men listened to me and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
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| 22절 | After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.
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| 23절 | They waited for me as for the rain, And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
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| 24절 | If I mocked at them, they did not believe it, And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
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| 25절 | I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one who comforts mourners.
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