📖 Job 29
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So Iob proceaded and wete forth in his communicacion, sayenge:
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O yt I were as I was in the monethes by past, & in the dayes whe God preserued me:
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when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.
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As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house:
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when the allmightie was with me: when my housholde folkes stode aboute me:
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whe my wayes ranne ouer wt butter, & when the stony rockes gaue me ryuers of oyle:
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when I wente thorow the cite vnto the gate, & whe they set me a chayre in ye strete:
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whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me:
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whe the princes left of their talkinge, & laied their hade to their mouth:
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whe the mightie kepte still their voyce, and whe their tonges cleued to the rofe of their mouthes.
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When all they yt herde me, called me happie: & when all they yt sawe me, wysshed me good.
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For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe.
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He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me.
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And why? I put vpon me rightuousnes, which couered me as a garmet, & equite was my crowne.
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I was an eye vnto the blynde, & a fote to the lame.
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I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.
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I brake the chaftes of ye vnrightuous, & plucte the spoyle out of their teth.
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Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see.
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For my rote was spred out by the waters syde, & the dew laye vpo my corne.
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My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande.
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Vnto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, & wt sylence they taried for my coucell.
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Yf I had spoken, they wolde haue it none other wayes, my wordes were so well taken amonge the.
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They wayted for me, as the earth doth for the rayne: & gaped vpon me, as the groude doth to receaue the latter shower.
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When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest: & this testimony of my coutenaunce pleased the nothinge at all.
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When I agreed vnto their waye, I was the chefe, & sat as a kynge amonge his seruauntes: Or as one that comforteth soch as be in heuynesse.