1<\/sup>Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.<\/span> <\/p>\n