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Job 29:2

Verse 2 of 25. The 29th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.