Job 29

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