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1 So Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying: 2 O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me: 3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse: 4 As it stoode with me when I was young, when God prospered my house: 5 When the almightie was yet with me, when my children stoode about me: 6 When my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle: 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete: 8 The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp. 9 The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth: Job 29:1-9, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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