Chapter: 29
Verse 1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Verse 2
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Verse 3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Verse 4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Verse 5
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Verse 6
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Verse 7
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Verse 8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Verse 9
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Verse 10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Verse 11
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Verse 12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Verse 13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Verse 14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Verse 15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Verse 16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Verse 17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Verse 18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Verse 19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Verse 20
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Verse 21
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Verse 22
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Verse 23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Verse 24
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Verse 25