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| The Book of Job 29 | ||||||||||||||||
| The World English Online Bible (WLD) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 29:1 | Job again took up his parable, and said, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:2 | "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:3 | When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:4 | As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:5 | When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:6 | When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:7 | When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:8 | The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:9 | The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:11 | For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:12 | Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:13 | The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:15 | I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:16 | I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:17 | I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:18 | Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:19 | My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:20 | My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.' | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:21 | "Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:22 | After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:23 | They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:24 | I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 29:25 | I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners. | |||||||||||||||
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