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- And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
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- “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
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- when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
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- as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
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- when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,
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- when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
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- When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
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- the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;
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- the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
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- the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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- When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
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- because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
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- The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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- I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
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- I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
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- I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
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- I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
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- Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
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- my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,
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- my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’
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- “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
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- After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
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- They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
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- I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.
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- I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 26
Kétéves:
- I. év: 1Kir 8:54-66
- II. év: Jón 4
- 1Pét 4:7-5:14
- Zsolt 119:81-96
- Péld 28:15-16
Példabeszéd
Elfedezhető a gyűlölete csalással, de nyilvánvalóvá lesz a gonoszsága a gyülekezetben.