The Book of Job

Chapters:

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verse #1

Job again took up his parable, and said,

verse #2

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

verse #3

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

verse #4

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

verse #5

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

verse #6

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

verse #7

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

verse #8

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

verse #9

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

verse #10

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

verse #11

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,

verse #12

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

verse #13

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

verse #14

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

verse #15

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

verse #16

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

verse #17

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

verse #18

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

verse #19

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

verse #20

My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

verse #21

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

verse #22

After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

verse #23

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

verse #24

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

verse #25

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

Chapters:

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