Job Chapter 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29 : 22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped on them.

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

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

29 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.