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Job 29

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And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

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"Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

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when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

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as I was in my autumn days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;

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when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

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when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

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When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

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the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

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the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

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the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

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When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved;

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because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

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The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

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I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

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I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

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I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

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Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

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my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

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my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

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"Men listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

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After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

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They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

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I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

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I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Job 30

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"But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?

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Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

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they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

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They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.

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In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

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A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

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"And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.

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They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

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Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

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On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.

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As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.

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Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

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"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

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The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

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With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

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God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.

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Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.

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Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.

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Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

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Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.

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I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

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My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

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My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

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