✧1Job again took up his parable, and said, ✧2“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; ✧3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, ✧4as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent, ✧5when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, ✧6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, ✧7when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. ✧8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. ✧9The 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 stuck to the roof of their mouth.
✧11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
✧12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
✧13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
✧14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.