1Job again took up his parable, and said,

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

2"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

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

3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through 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 ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

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

5when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

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

6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

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

7when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

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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. The aged 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 refrained from talking, and laid 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 voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

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

11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

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

12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

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

13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as 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 eyes to the blind, and feet 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 to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.

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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 unrighteous, and plucked the prey 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 said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

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

19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

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

20My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'

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

21"Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

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

22After my words they did not speak again. My speech fell on 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 the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

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

24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They did not reject the light of my face.

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

25I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts 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