when I washed my paths [a]with butter, and when the rock poured me out rivers of oil:

When I went out to the gate, even to the judgment seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seat in the street.

The young men saw me, and [b]hid themselves, and the aged arose, and stood up.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 29:6 By these similitudes he declareth the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had none occasion to be such a sinner as they accused him.
  2. Job 29:8 Being ashamed of their lightness and afraid of my gravity.

when my path was drenched with cream(A)
    and the rock(B) poured out for me streams of olive oil.(C)

“When I went to the gate(D) of the city
    and took my seat in the public square,
the young men saw me and stepped aside(E)
    and the old men rose to their feet;(F)

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