• Job 29:1

    Moreover Job continueda his parable, and said,

  • Job 29:2

    Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

  • Job 29:3

    When his candleb shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 29:4

    As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

  • Job 29:5

    When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

  • Job 29:6

    When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

  • Job 29:7

    When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

  • Job 29:8

    The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

  • Job 29:9

    The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

  • Job 29:10

    The noblesc held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

  • Job 29:11

    When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

  • Job 29:12

    Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

  • Job 29:13

    The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

  • Job 29:14

    I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

  • Job 29:15

    I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

  • Job 29:16

    I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

  • Job 29:17

    And I brake the jawsd of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

  • Job 29:18

    Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

  • Job 29:19

    My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

  • Job 29:20

    My glory was freshe in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

  • Job 29:21

    Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

  • Job 29:22

    After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

  • Job 29:23

    And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

  • Job 29:24

    If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

  • Job 29:25

    I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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