Job’s Righteousness and Esteem in the City Gate

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When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.

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The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.

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The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.

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The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

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And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

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For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

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The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

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I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

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I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.

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I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

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I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.