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¹ So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,² Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!³ When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,⁴ As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:⁵ When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.⁶ When I washed my pathes with butter, & when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:

⁷ When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.⁸ The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.⁹ The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.¹⁰ The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.¹¹ And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.¹² For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.¹⁴ I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.¹⁵ I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.¹⁶ I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.¹⁷ I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

¹⁸ Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.¹⁹ For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.²⁰ My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.²¹ Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.²² After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.²³ And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne.²⁴ If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.²⁵ I appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.