Job Chapter 29
1 Job continued the lifting up of his speech and said,
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me.
3 When His lamp shone on my head, I walked through darkness by His light.
4 As I was in the days of my harvest when the secret of God was on my tent.
5 When the Almighty was yet with me and my children were around me.
6 When I washed my steps with curds and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me.
7 When I went to the gate by the city. When I prepared my seat in the street.
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged arose and stood up.
9 The rulers held back from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 The noble's voice was subdued. Their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.
11 The ear heard and blessed me. The eye saw me and witnessed to me.
12 I delivered the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless who had no one to help them.
13 The blessing of the perishing came on me. I caused the widow's heart to sing.
14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me. My judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor and I searched out the cause that I did not know.
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I will die in my nest and I will multiply my days like the sand.
19 My root was open to the waters. The dew lay all night on my branch.
20 My glory was fresh in me and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 They listened to me and waited and kept silent at my counsel.
22 They did not go on after my words. My speech dropped on them.
23 They waited for me like the rain. They opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24 If I laughed at them, they did not believe it. Yet they did not cast down the light of my face.
25 I chose a way out for them and sat like a chief. I lived like a king in the army, like one who comforts the mourners.