when my paths were washed in sour milk, and [the] rock poured out streams of oil for me.

"At my going out [the] gate to [the] city, I secured my seat in the square.

because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.

Then Job again took up his discourse and said,

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.

I [was] a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute.

"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] days.

"When [the] ear heard and commended me, and [the] eye saw and testified in support of me

[The] blessing of [the] wretched came upon me, and I caused [the] widow's heart to sing for joy.

"I was eyes to the blind, and I [was] feet to the lame.

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding [was] over my {house},

My glory [was] new with me, and {I was revitalized regularly}.'

"They listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel.

And I broke [the] evil one's jaw bones, and I made [his] prey drop from his teeth.

And they waited for me as [for] the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for [the] spring rain.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.

I smiled for them [when] they had no confidence [in anything], and they did not extinguish the light of my face.

After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down [like dew] upon them.

[The] voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

Young men saw me and stepped aside, and [the] aged rose up [and] stood.

when Shaddai[was] still with me, my children [were] all around me,