Page:The Holy Bible, containing the Old & New Testament & the Apocrypha (Volume 2).djvu/70

And he knoweth the place thereof.

For he looketh to the ends of the earth,

And seeth under the whole heaven;

To make the weight for the winds;

And he weigheth the waters by measure.

When he made a decree for the rain,

And a way for the lightning of the thunder:

Then did he see it, and declare it;

He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

And unto man he said. Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;

And to depart from evil is understanding.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Oh that I were as in months past,

As in the days when God preserved me;

When his candle shined upon my head.

And when by his light I walked through darkness ;

As I was in the days of my youth.

When the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When the Almighty was yet with me,

When my children were about me;

When I washed my steps with butter,

And the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

When I went out to the gate through the city,

When I prepared my seat in the street!

The young men saw me, and hid themselves:

And the aged arose, and stood up.

[ 58 ]