Job_29_01 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, ~
Job_29_02 Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; ~
Job_29_03 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness; ~
Job_29_04 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; ~
Job_29_05 When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me; ~
Job_29_06 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; ~
Job_29_07 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! ~
Job_29_08 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. ~
Job_29_09 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. ~
Job_29_10 The nobles 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 jaws 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] fresh 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. ~