Job Chapter 29
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Job 29:1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:
Job 29:2“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
Job 29:3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Job 29:4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
Job 29:5 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,
Job 29:6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,
Job 29:8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;
Job 29:9 the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;
Job 29:10 the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,
Job 29:12 because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 29:13 The blessing of him who was about 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 justice was like a robe and a turban.
Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
Job 29:17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
Job 29:18 Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
Job 29:19 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,
Job 29:20 my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’
Job 29:21 “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.
Job 29:22 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.
Job 29:23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.