| 1 | Job again took up his parable, and said, | Jb 27:1 |
| 2 | "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; | Jb 1:1-5 Jb 7:3 |
| 3 | When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness; | Jb 18:6 Jb 21:17 Ps 18:28 Pr 13:9 Pr 20:20 Pr 24:20 |
| 4 | As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent; | Jb 1:10 Jb 15:8 Ps 25:14 Ps 27:5 Ps 91:1 Pr 3:32 Col 3:3 |
| 5 | When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me; | Jb 23:3 Jb 23:8-10 Dt 33:27-29 Jsh 1:9 Jg 6:12 Jg 6:13 Ps 30:7 Ps 43:2 Ps 44:8 Ps 44:9 So 2:4 So 3:1 So 3:2 Jer 14:8 Mt 9:15 |
| 6 | When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me! | Jb 20:17 Gn 49:11 Dt 32:13 Dt 33:24 Ps 81:16 |
| 7 | When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street, | Dt 16:18 Dt 21:19 Ru 4:1 Ru 4:2 Ru 4:11 Zc 8:16 |
| 8 | The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood; | Lv 19:32 Pr 16:31 Pr 20:8 Ro 13:3 Ro 13:4 Tit 3:1 1Pe 5:5 |
| 9 | The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; | Jb 4:2 Jb 7:11 Pr 10:19 Jm 1:19 |
| 10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. | Ps 137:6 Ezk 3:26 |
| 11 | For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me: | Jb 31:20 Pr 29:2 Lk 4:22 Lk 11:27 |
| 12 | Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him. | Jb 22:5-9 Ne 5:2-13 Ps 72:12 Ps 82:2-4 Pr 21:13 Pr 24:11 Pr 24:12 Jer 22:16 |
| 13 | The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow`s heart to sing for joy. | Dt 24:13 Ac 9:39-41 2Co 9:12-14 2Ti 1:16-18 |
| 14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. | Dt 24:13 Ps 132:9 Isa 59:17 Isa 61:10 Ro 13:14 2Co 6:7 Eph 6:14 1Th 5:8 Rev 19:8 |
| 15 | I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame. | Nm 10:31 Mt 11:5 1Co 12:12-31 |
| 16 | I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn`t know, I searched out. | Jb 31:18 Es 2:7 Ps 68:5 Eph 5:1 Jm 1:27 |
| 17 | I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth. | Ps 3:7 Ps 58:8 Pr 30:14 |
| 18 | Then I said, `I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand. | Ps 30:6 Ps 30:7 Jer 22:23 Jer 49:16 Ob 1:4 Hab 2:9 |
| 19 | My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch; | Jb 18:16 Ps 1:3 Jer 17:8 Hos 14:5-7 |
| 20 | My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.` | Jb 29:14 Jb 19:9 Gn 45:13 Ps 3:3 |
| 21 | "Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel. | Jb 29:9 Jb 29:10 Jb 32:11 Jb 32:12 |
| 22 | After my words they didn`t speak again; My speech fell on them. | Jb 32:15 Jb 32:16 Jb 33:31-33 Isa 52:15 Mt 22:46 |
| 23 | They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. | Ps 72:6 |
| 24 | I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn`t reject the light of my face. | Gn 45:26 Ps 126:1 Lk 24:41 |
| 25 | I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners. | Gn 41:40 Jg 11:8 2Sa 5:2 1Ch 13:1-4 |
