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JOB
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- After my words they spake not again;
- And my speech dropped upon them.
- And they waited for me as for the rain;
- And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- If I laughed on them, they believed it not;
- And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- I chose out their way, and sat chief,
- And dwelt as a king in the army,
- As one that comforteth the mourners.
- But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
- Whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me,
- In whom old age was perished?
- For want and famine they were solitary;
- Fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- Who cut up mallows by the bushes,
- And juniper roots for their meat.
- They were driven forth from among men,
- (They cried after them as after a thief;)
- To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys.
- In caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- Among the bushes they brayed;
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