1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as |in| months past, as |in| the days |when| God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, |and when| by his light I walked |through| darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God |was| upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty |was| yet with me, |when| my children |were| about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 7 When I went out to the gate through the city, |when| I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, |and| stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid |their| hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard |me|, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw |me|, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and |him that had| none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment |was| as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet |was| I to the lame. 16 I |was| a father to the poor: and the cause |which| I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply |my| days as the sand. 19 My root |was| spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory |was| fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me |men| gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide |as| for the latter rain. 24 |If| I laughed on them, they believed |it| not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one |that| comforteth the mourners.