Job 29

1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,RV1885 — Job 29:1

2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;RV1885 — Job 29:2

3 When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;RV1885 — Job 29:3

4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;RV1885 — Job 29:4

5 When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;RV1885 — Job 29:5

6 When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!RV1885 — Job 29:6

7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,RV1885 — Job 29:7

8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;RV1885 — Job 29:8

9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;RV1885 — Job 29:9

10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.RV1885 — Job 29:10

11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:RV1885 — Job 29:11

12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.RV1885 — Job 29:12

13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.RV1885 — Job 29:13

14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my justice was as a robe and a diadem.RV1885 — Job 29:14

15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.RV1885 — Job 29:15

16 I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.RV1885 — Job 29:16

17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.RV1885 — Job 29:17

18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand:RV1885 — Job 29:18

19 My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lieth all night upon my branch:RV1885 — Job 29:19

20 My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.RV1885 — Job 29:20

21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.RV1885 — Job 29:21

22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.RV1885 — Job 29:22

23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.RV1885 — Job 29:23

24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.RV1885 — Job 29:24

25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.RV1885 — Job 29:25