Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said: