Bible

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And Job again took up his parable, and said,

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Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;JER:31:28

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When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;JOB:11:17
PS:18:29
PRO:13:9
JOB:18:6

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As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;JOB:1:10
PS:25:14
JOB:15:8
PRO:3:32

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

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When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!JOB:20:17
PS:81:16
DEU:32:13
DEU:32:14

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When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,JOB:5:4
JOB:31:21

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The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;LEV:19:32

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The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;JOB:29:21
JOB:21:5
JOB:40:4

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The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.JOB:29:22
PS:137:6

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For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:JOB:4:3-4

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Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.ISA:11:4-5
PRO:21:13
PS:82:4
JOB:6:14
JOB:24:4
JOB:24:9
JOB:34:28
PS:72:12
JOB:31:17
JOB:31:21

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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow`s heart to sing for joy.JOB:22:9
JOB:31:19
DEU:24:13

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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.ISA:59:17
PS:132:9
JOB:19:9
ISA:61:10
EPH:6:14
PS:119:121
JOB:27:5-6

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I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.NUM:10:31

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I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.PRO:29:7
JOB:24:4

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And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.JOB:4:11
PS:3:7

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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:PS:1:1-3

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My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;JER:17:8
HOS:14:5

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My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.PS:18:34
PS:23:1
JOB:30:11
PS:80:1
PS:73:23
ISA:41:10

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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.JOB:4:3

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After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.DEU:32:2

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And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.DEU:32:2
PRO:16:15

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I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.PRO:16:15

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I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.JOB:4:3
JOB:16:5
JOB:31:37
JOB:4:4
JOB:1:3