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The Book of Job, Chapter 29, Verse 9

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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
King James Version
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
American Standard Version
The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
New English Translation
the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;
World English Bible
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
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I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
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My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.