¹ And Job again took up his parable, and said,

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.

¹⁵ And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;

¹ And Job again took up his parable, and said,

³ And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

² I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

⁷ The legs of the lame hang loose: So is a parable in the mouth of fools.