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Job 29:2-25

29:2

Oh that
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I were as [in] months
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past
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as [in] the days
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[when] God
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preserved
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me;

29:3

When his candle
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shined
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upon my head
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[and when] by his light
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I walked
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[through] darkness
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{candle: or, lamp}

29:4

As I was in the days
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of my youth
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when the secret
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of God
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[was] upon my tabernacle
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29:5

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

29:6

When I washed
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my steps
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with butter
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and the rock
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poured me out
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rivers
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of oil
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{me: Heb. with me}

29:7

When I went out
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to the gate
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through the city
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[when] I prepared
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my seat
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in the street
<07339>_!

29:8

The young men
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saw
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me, and hid
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themselves: and the aged
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arose
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[and] stood up
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29:9

The princes
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refrained
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talking
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and laid
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[their] hand
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on their mouth
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29:10

The nobles
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held
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their peace
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and their tongue
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cleaved
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to the roof of their mouth
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{The nobles...: Heb. The voice of the nobles was hid}

29:11

When the ear
<0241>

heard
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[me], then it blessed
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me; and when the eye
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saw
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[me], it gave witness
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to me:

29:12

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

29:13

The blessing
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of him that was ready to perish
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came
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upon me: and I caused the widow's
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heart
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to sing for joy
<07442> (8686)_.

29:14

I put
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on righteousness
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and it clothed
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me: my judgment
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[was] as a robe
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and a diadem
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29:15

I was eyes
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to the blind
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and feet
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[was] I to the lame
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29:16

I [was] a father
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to the poor
<034>_:

and the cause
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[which] I knew
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not I searched out
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29:17

And I brake
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the jaws
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of the wicked
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and plucked
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the spoil
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out of his teeth
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{the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}

29:18

Then I said
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I shall die
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in my nest
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and I shall multiply
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[my] days
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as the sand
<02344>_.

29:19

My root
<08328>

[was] spread out
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by the waters
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and the dew
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lay all night
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upon my branch
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{spread...: Heb. opened}

29:20

My glory
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[was] fresh
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in me
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and my bow
<07198>

was renewed
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in my hand
<03027>_.

{fresh: Heb. new} {renewed: Heb. changed}

29:21

Unto me [men] gave ear
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and waited
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and kept silence
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at
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my counsel
<06098>_.

29:22

After
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my words
<01697>

they spake not again
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and my speech
<04405>

dropped
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upon them.

29:23

And they waited
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for me as for the rain
<04306>_;

and they opened
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their mouth
<06310>

wide [as] for the latter rain
<04456>_.

29:24

[If] I laughed
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on them, they believed
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[it] not; and the light
<0216>

of my countenance
<06440>

they cast not down
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29:25

I chose
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out their way
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and sat
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chief
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and dwelt
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as a king
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in the army
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as one [that] comforteth
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the mourners
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