1<\/sup>Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.<\/span> <\/p>\n