When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Moreover, 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 judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall 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 ready to perish 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 candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

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

To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

And I broke the jaws of the wicked, 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 out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

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

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