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tent;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the Almighty was yet with me,</div><div class="po2">And my children were about me;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When my steps were washed with butter,</div><div class="po2">And the rock poured me out rivers of oil!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When I went forth to the gate unto the city,</div><div class="po2">When I prepared my seat in the broad place,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The young men saw me and hid themselves,</div><div class="po2">And the aged rose up and stood;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The princes refrained talking,</div><div class="po2">And laid their hand on their mouth;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The voice of the nobles was hushed,</div><div class="po2">And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me,</div><div class="po2">And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Because I delivered the poor that cried,</div><div class="po2">The fatherless also, that had none to help him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;</div><div class="po2">and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me;</div><div class="po2">My justice was as a robe and a diadem.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I was eyes to the blind,</div><div class="po2">And feet was I to the lame.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I was a father to the needy;</div><div class="po2">And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,</div><div class="po2">And plucked the prey out of his teeth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then I said: ‘I shall die with my nest,</div><div class="po2">And I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My root shall be spread out to the waters,</div><div class="po2">And the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory shall be fresh in me,</div><div class="po2">And my bow shall be renewed in my hand.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Unto me men gave ear, and waited,</div><div class="po2">And kept silence for my counsel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After my words they spoke not again;</div><div class="po2">And my speech dropped upon them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they waited for me as for the rain;</div><div class="po2">And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I laughed on them, they believed it not;</div><div class="po2">And the light of my countenance they cast not down.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army,</div><div class="po2">As one that comforteth the mourners.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' 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