Job 29 | WEB Bible Study

Job 29:1 (WEB)
Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 29:2 (WEB)
"Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Job 29:3 (WEB)
When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 29:4 (WEB)
As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;

Job 29:5 (WEB)
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;

Job 29:6 (WEB)
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

Job 29:7 (WEB)
When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Job 29:8 (WEB)
The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;

Job 29:9 (WEB)
The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

Job 29:10 (WEB)
The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

Job 29:11 (WEB)
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Job 29:12 (WEB)
Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

Job 29:13 (WEB)
The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:14 (WEB)
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:15 (WEB)
I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

Job 29:16 (WEB)
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

Job 29:17 (WEB)
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Job 29:18 (WEB)
Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

Job 29:19 (WEB)
My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;

Job 29:20 (WEB)
My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

Job 29:21 (WEB)
"Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22 (WEB)
After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.

Job 29:23 (WEB)
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 29:24 (WEB)
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

Job 29:25 (WEB)
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

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