M<\/span>oreover Job continued his parable, and said,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.<\/span> <\/p>\n