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Job’s Final Claim of Innocence

|Jó 29:1| Job continued his discourse, saying:

|Jó 29:2| If only I could be as in months gone by, in the days when God watched over me,

|Jó 29:3| when His lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkness by His light! ^a

|Jó 29:4| I would be as I was in the days of my youth when God’s friendship ^b rested on my tent,

|Jó 29:5| when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

|Jó 29:6| when my feet were bathed in cream and the rock ^c poured out streams of oil for me!

|Jó 29:7| When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,

|Jó 29:8| the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.

|Jó 29:9| City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands. ^d

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|Jó 29:10| The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.