Job

Chapter 29

New King James Version

1Job further continued his discourse, and said:

2Oh, that I were as [in] months past, As [in] the days [when] God watched over me;

3When His lamp shone upon my head, [And when] by His light I walked [through] darkness;

4Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God [was] over my tent;

5When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [When] my children [were] around me;

6When my steps were bathed with cream, And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!

7"When I went out to the gate by the city, [When] I took my seat in the open square,

8The young men saw me and hid, And the aged arose [and] stood;

9The princes refrained from talking, And put [their] hand on their mouth;

10The voice of nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

11When the ear heard, then it blessed me, And when the eye saw, then it approved me;

12Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and [the one who] had no helper.

13The blessing of a perishing [man] came upon me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice [was] like a robe and a turban.

15I [was] eyes to the blind, And I [was] feet to the lame.

16I [was] a father to the poor, And I searched out the case [that] I did not know.

17I broke the fangs of the wicked, And plucked the victim from his teeth.

18"Then I said, 'I shall die in my nest, And multiply [my] days as the sand.

19My root [is] spread out to the waters, And the dew lies all night on my branch.

20My glory [is] fresh within me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.'

21"[Men] listened to me and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

22After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them [as dew.]

23They waited for me [as] for the rain, And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the spring rain.

24[If] I mocked at them, they did not believe [it,] And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

25I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one [who] comforts mourners.

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