1So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

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

2Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!

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

3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

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

4As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

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

5When the almightie was yet with me, and my children 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 pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:

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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, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

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

8The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

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

9The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.

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

10The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

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

11And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

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

12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

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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 vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

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

14I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

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

15I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete 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 a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

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

17I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

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

18Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.

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

19For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

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

20My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.

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

21Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.

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

22After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.

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

23And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne.

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

24If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.

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

25I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.

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