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