29Job 29

1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:Select Job 29:1

2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?Select Job 29:2

3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?Select Job 29:3

4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?Select Job 29:4

5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?Select Job 29:5

6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?Select Job 29:6

7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?Select Job 29:7

8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.Select Job 29:8

9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.Select Job 29:9

10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.Select Job 29:10

11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:Select Job 29:11

12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.Select Job 29:12

13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.Select Job 29:13

14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.Select Job 29:14

15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.Select Job 29:15

16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.Select Job 29:16

17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.Select Job 29:17

18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.Select Job 29:18

19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.Select Job 29:19

20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.Select Job 29:20

21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.Select Job 29:21

22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.Select Job 29:22

23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.Select Job 29:23

24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.Select Job 29:24

25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.Select Job 29:25