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28.26 :And a way for the storm of thunders;
 * Then did He see it, and declare it;
 * He established it, yea, and searched it out.


 * And unto man He said:
 * 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
 * And to depart from evil is understanding.'

And Job again took up his parable, and said:


 * Oh that I were as in the months of old,
 * As in the days when God watched over me;
 * When His lamp shined above my head,
 * And by His light I walked through darkness;
 * As I was in the days of my youth,
 * When the converse of God was upon my tent;
 * When the Almighty was yet with me,
 * And my children were about me;
 * When my steps were washed with butter,
 * And the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
 * When I went forth to the gate unto the city,
 * When I prepared my seat in the broad place,
 * The young men saw me and hid themselves,
 * And the aged rose up and stood;
 * The princes refrained talking,
 * And laid their hand on their mouth;
 * The voice of the nobles was hushed,
 * And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
 * For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me,
 * And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;
 * Because I delivered the poor that cried,
 * The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
 * The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;
 * And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 * I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me;
 * My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
 * I was eyes to the blind,
 * And feet was I to the lame.
 * I was a father to the needy;
 * And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
 * And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,
 * And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
 * Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest,
 * And I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;
 * My root shall be spread out to the waters,
 * And the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;
 * My glory shall be fresh in me,
 * And my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'


 * Unto me men gave ear, and waited,
 * And kept silence for my counsel.
 * After my words they spoke not again;
 * And my speech dropped upon them.
 * And they waited for me as for the rain;
 * And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 * If I laughed on them, they believed it not;
 * And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
 * I chose out their way, and sat as chief,