When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

And Job continued his parable and said,

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;

The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;

When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;

When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;