Job 29:1-12
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1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
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6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
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12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.