book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,


text: Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;


text: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;


text: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;


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


text: When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;


text: When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!


text: The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.


text: The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.


text: The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.


text: When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:


text: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him 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 judgment 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 poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.


text: And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil 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 was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.


text: My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.


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


text: After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.


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


text: If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.


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