29Job 29

1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,Select Job 29:1

2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;Select Job 29:2

3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;Select Job 29:3

4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;Select Job 29:4

5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;Select Job 29:5

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

7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!Select Job 29:7

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

9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.Select Job 29:9

10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.Select Job 29:10

11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:Select Job 29:11

12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.Select Job 29:12

13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Select Job 29:13

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.Select Job 29:14

15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.Select Job 29:15

16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.Select Job 29:16

17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Select Job 29:17

18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.Select Job 29:18

19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.Select Job 29:19

20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.Select Job 29:20

21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.Select Job 29:21

22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.Select Job 29:22

23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.Select Job 29:23

24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.Select Job 29:24

25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.Select Job 29:25