Job - Chapter 29 | American Standard Version

  • 1. And Job again took up his parable, and said,
  • 2. Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
  • 3. When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
  • 4. As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
  • 5. When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
  • 6. When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
  • 7. When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
  • 8. The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
  • 9. The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
  • 10. The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
  • 11. For when the ear heard {cf15i me}, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw {cf15i me}, it gave witness unto me:
  • 12. Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, 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 justice 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 needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
  • 17. And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey 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 is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
  • 20. My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
  • 21. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
  • 22. After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
  • 23. And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide {cf15i as} for the latter rain.
  • 24. I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
  • 25. I chose out their way, and sat {cf15i as} chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
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