29Job 29

1And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --Select Job 29:1

2Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?Select Job 29:2

3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.Select Job 29:3

4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.Select Job 29:4

5When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me--my young ones,Select Job 29:5

6When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.Select Job 29:6

7When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.Select Job 29:7

8Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen--they stood up.Select Job 29:8

9Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.Select Job 29:9

10The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.Select Job 29:10

11For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me.Select Job 29:11

12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.Select Job 29:12

13The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.Select Job 29:13

14Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.Select Job 29:14

15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.Select Job 29:15

16A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.Select Job 29:16

17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.Select Job 29:17

18And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'Select Job 29:18

19My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.Select Job 29:19

20My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.Select Job 29:20

21To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.Select Job 29:21

22After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,Select Job 29:22

23And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.Select Job 29:23

24I laugh unto them--they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.Select Job 29:24

25I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.Select Job 29:25