When my ways ran over with butter, and when the stony rocks gave me rivers of oil;

When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;

"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.

So Job proceeded and went forth in his communication, saying,

"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;

And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.

I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.

"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.

When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.

He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.

I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame;

When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

As it stood with me, when I was young, when God prospered my house;

My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand.

Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel.

I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.

When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.

when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;

When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;

For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children stood about me;