Job 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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