Job 29:7-17
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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.
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13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.