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watched over me;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>when his lamp shone over my head,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and by his light I walked through darkness;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>when I was in my prime,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when the friendship of God was upon my tent;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>when the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15608a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> was still with me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when my children were around me;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>when my steps were washed with milk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>When I went out to the gate of the city,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when I took my seat in the square,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>the young men saw me and withdrew,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the aged rose up and stood;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>the nobles refrained from talking,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and laid their hands on their mouths;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>the voices of princes were hushed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>When the ear heard, it commended me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and when the eye saw, it approved;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>because I delivered the poor who cried,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the orphan who had no helper.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The blessing of the wretched came upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my justice was like a robe and a turban.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I was eyes to the blind,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and feet to the lame.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I was a father to the needy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I championed the cause of the stranger.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>I broke the fangs of the unrighteous,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and made them drop their prey from their teeth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15621b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>my roots spread out to the waters,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with the dew all night on my branches;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>my glory was fresh with me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my bow ever new in my hand.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>“They listened to me, and waited,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and kept silence for my counsel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>After I spoke they did not speak again,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my word dropped upon them like dew.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15625c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>They waited for me as for the rain;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>I smiled on them when they had no confidence;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15627d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>I chose their way, and sat as chief,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I lived like a king among his troops,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like one who comforts mourners.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 29:5">Job 29:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 29:18">Job 29:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>like sand</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 29:22">Job 29:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>like dew</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 29:24">Job 29:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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