Job Chapter 29

• Job 29:1
  Job.
• Job 29:2
  Job again took up his parable, and said,
• Job 29:3
  “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
• Job 29:4
  when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
• Job 29:5
  as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
• Job 29:6
  when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
• Job 29:7
  when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
• Job 29:8
  when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
• Job 29:9
  The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
• Job 29:10
  The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
• Job 29:11
  The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
• Job 29:12
  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
• Job 29:13
  because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
• Job 29:14
  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
• Job 29:15
  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
• Job 29:16
  I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
• Job 29:17
  I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
• Job 29:18
  I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
• Job 29:19
  Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
• Job 29:20
  My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
• Job 29:21
  My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
• Job 29:22
  “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
• Job 29:23
  After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
• Job 29:24
  They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
• Job 29:25
  I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
• Job 29:26
  I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.