1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

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Job 27:1, Job 27:1, Numbers 23:7, Job 13:12, Numbers 23:7

2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

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Jeremiah 31:28, Job 1:10, Job 1:1, Job 1:5, Jeremiah 31:28

3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

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Psalms 18:28, Psalms 18:28, John 8:12, Job 18:6, John 8:12

4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

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Psalms 25:14, Psalms 25:14, Proverbs 3:32, Proverbs 3:32, Job 1:10

5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

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Psalms 128:3, Psalms 128:3, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:5, Psalms 127:3

6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

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Psalms 81:16, Psalms 81:16, Job 20:17, Job 20:17, Deuteronomy 32:13

7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

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Ruth 4:1, Ruth 4:2, Zechariah 8:16, Ruth 4:1, Ruth 4:2

8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.

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Leviticus 19:32, Leviticus 19:32, Romans 13:7, Proverbs 16:31, Titus 3:1

9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

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Job 21:5, Job 21:5, Job 40:4, Proverbs 30:32, Proverbs 10:19

10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.

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Psalms 137:6, Psalms 137:6, Ezekiel 3:26, Ezekiel 3:26

11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

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Luke 4:22, Luke 4:22, Proverbs 29:2, Job 31:20, Proverbs 29:2

12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

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Psalms 72:12, Psalms 72:12, Proverbs 21:13, Proverbs 21:13, James 1:27

13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

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2 Timothy 1:16, 2 Timothy 1:18, Job 22:9, Isaiah 27:13, Philemon 1:7

14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

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Isaiah 61:10, Isaiah 61:10, Isaiah 59:17, Isaiah 59:17, Psalms 132:9

15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

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Numbers 10:31, Numbers 10:31, Matthew 11:5, Matthew 11:5, 1 Corinthians 12:12

16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

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Proverbs 29:7, Proverbs 29:7, Esther 2:7, Job 24:4, Job 31:18

17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

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Psalms 3:7, Psalms 3:7, Proverbs 30:14, Proverbs 30:14, Psalms 58:8

18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

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Psalms 30:6, Psalms 30:7, Psalms 30:6, Psalms 30:7, Obadiah 1:4

19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

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Jeremiah 17:8, Psalms 1:3, Jeremiah 17:8, Psalms 1:3, Job 18:16

20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

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Genesis 49:24, Genesis 49:24, Isaiah 40:31, Isaiah 40:31, Psalms 18:34

21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

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Job 32:11, Job 32:12, Job 29:9, Job 29:10, Job 32:11

22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

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Deuteronomy 32:2, Deuteronomy 32:2, Song of Solomon 4:11, Matthew 22:46, Ezekiel 20:46

23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

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Hosea 6:3, Hosea 6:3, Zechariah 10:1, Psalms 72:6, Zechariah 10:1

24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.

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Psalms 4:6, Psalms 89:15, Psalms 126:1, Psalms 4:6, Psalms 89:15

25If 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.

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2 Corinthians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 1:4, 2 Corinthians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 1:4, 1 Thessalonians 3:2