ASV - Job - 29

29:1  And Job again took up his parable, and said,

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

29:3  When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

29:4  As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

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

29:7  When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

29:8  The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

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

29:10  The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

29:11  For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me:

29:12  Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

29:13  The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

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

29:15  I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

29:16  I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

29:17  And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

29:19  My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:

29:20  My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.

29:21  Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

29:22  After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.

29:23  And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wideasfor the latter rain.

29:24  I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

29:25  I chose out their way, and sataschief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.