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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job continued his speech: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow's heart rejoice; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Then I thought, 'I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.' |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners. |
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