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and the eye saw, and it will testify to me:<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Eyes was I to the blind one, and feet to the lame was I.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My root opened to the waters, and the dew will lodge upon my foliage.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory new with me, and my bow will be changed in my hand.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>To me they heard, and they waited, and they will be silent for them at my counsel.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After my words they will not repeat, and my speech will drop upon them.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they waited for me as the rain, and they opened wide their mouth for the latter rain.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I shall laugh at them, they will not believe; and the light of my face they will not cast down.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I shall choose their way, and I shall sit the head, and I shall dwell as king in the troop, as he shall comfort those mourning.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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