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29:1  Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
29:2  Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
29:3  When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
29:4  As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
29:5  When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
29:6  When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
29:7  When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
29:8  The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
29:9  The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
29:10  The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
29:11  The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
29:12  Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
29:13  The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
29:14  I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
29:15  I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
29:16  I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
29:17  I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
29:18  And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
29:19  My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
29:20  My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
29:21  They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
29:22  To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
29:23  They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
29:24  If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
29:25  If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.