And Job continued the lifting up of His speech, and said,
Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay.
And Job continued the lifting up of his speech, and said,
I will bow down my ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying on the harp.
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will speak 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 Jacob for me, 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;