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Job 29

29 Then Eyob again replied:

“Oh to be as once I was in months gone by,

in the days when God was guarding me,

when his lamp shone over my head,

and I could walk by his light through the dark!

Oh to be as I once was in my prime,

when God was kindly sheltering my home,

when the Almighty still was with me,

when my children were about me,

when my farms were a-flow with milk,

and oil gushed from my oil- press!

When I went to the city-council,

and sat down among the burghers,

the youths fell back before me,

seniors rose to their feet,

the nobles ceased to talk,

and held their peace,

the magnates became mute,

and were struck dumb.

Men listened to me carefully,

q2 and silently awaited my advice;

my words fell fresh on them like showers,

they waited for me as for rain,

like the dry clods in spring for rain,

and when I spoke, no one would speak again.

When I smiled, it encouraged them,

my cheerful gaze put heart into the hopeless;

I fixed their policy, I presided there,

commanding as a monarch among men.

Men blessed me when they heard of me,

men owned my worth who saw me;

for I delivered poor men when they cried,

the fatherless and helpless;

perishing people would give me their blessing,

I gladdened the heart of the widow;

I wore the robe of charity and 14 kindness,

my justice was a tunic and a turban;

I was eyes to the blind,

I was feet to the lame,

I was a father to protect the poor,

taking their case up, though it was not mine;

I broke the jaws of any who oppressed,

and forced their fangs to drop their prey.

So I thought, ‘I shall grow old among my brood,

my days shall be like sand for number;

my roots reach to the water,

the dew lies on my branches all the night;

fresh honours fall to me,

I grow in might.’

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