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Job’s Summary Defense
Job further continued his discourse, and said:
Job further continued his discourse, and said:
Job's Former Blessings
And Job continued his parable and said,
And Job continued his parable and said,
“Oh, that I were as in months past,
As in the days when God watched over me;
As in the days when God watched over me;
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
When His lamp shone upon my head,
And when by His light I walked through darkness;
And when by His light I walked through darkness;
When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;
Just as I was in the days of my prime,
When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
When the Almighty was yet with me,
When my children were around me;
When my children were around me;
When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
“When I went out to the gate by the city,
When I took my seat in the open square,
When I took my seat in the open square,
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
The young men saw me and hid,
And the aged arose and stood;
And the aged arose and stood;
The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;
The princes refrained from talking,
And put their hand on their mouth;
And put their hand on their mouth;
Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
The voice of nobles was hushed,
And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
When the ear heard, then it blessed me,
And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;
Because I delivered the poor who cried out,
The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
The blessing of a perishing man came upon me,
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.
My justice was like a robe and a turban.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
I was eyes to the blind,
And I was feet to the lame.
And I was feet to the lame.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
I was a father to the poor,
And I searched out the case that I did not know.
And I searched out the case that I did not know.
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
I broke the fangs of the wicked,
And plucked the victim from his teeth.
And plucked the victim from his teeth.
And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,
And multiply my days as the sand.
And multiply my days as the sand.
And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
My root is spread out to the waters,
And the dew lies all night on my branch.
And the dew lies all night on my branch.
My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
My glory is fresh within me,
And my bow is renewed in my hand.’
And my bow is renewed in my hand.’
My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
“Men listened to me and waited,
And kept silence for my counsel.
And kept silence for my counsel.
Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
After my words they did not speak again,
And my speech settled on them as dew.
And my speech settled on them as dew.
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
They waited for me as for the rain,
And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
If I mocked at them, they did not believe it,
And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.