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| The Book of Job 29 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 29:1 | Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:2 | Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:3 | When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:4 | As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:5 | When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:6 | When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:7 | When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:8 | The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:9 | The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:10 | The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:11 | The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:12 | Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:13 | The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:14 | I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:15 | I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:16 | I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:17 | I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:18 | And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:19 | My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:20 | My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:21 | They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:22 | To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:23 | They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:24 | If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:25 | If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned. | |||||||||||||||
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