translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: And Job again took up his parable, and said,


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


text: When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;


text: As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;


text: When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;


text: When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!


text: When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,


text: The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;


text: The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;


text: The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.


text: For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:


text: Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.


text: The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.


text: I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.


text: I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.


text: I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.


text: And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.


text: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:


text: My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:


text: My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.


text: Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.


text: After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.


text: And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.


text: I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.


text: I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.