LITV - Job - 29

29:1  And Job continued the lifting up of his discourse, and said:

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

29:3  when His lamp shone on my head, when I walked through darkness by His light;

29:4  as I was in the days of my harvest, when the intimacy with God was on my tent;

29:5  when the Almighty was yet with me and my children were around me;

29:6  when I washed my steps with curds, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me;

29:7  when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street.

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

29:9  the rulers held back with words, and they laid a hand on their mouth;

29:10  the leaders' voice was hidden; yea, their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

29:11  For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw, and witnessed for me.

29:12  For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him.

29:13  The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I made the widow's heart to sing.

29:14  I put on righteousness and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.

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

29:16  I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.

29:17  I broke the fangs of the perverse, and cast the prey out of his teeth.

29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply days like the sand.

29:19  My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.

29:20  My glory was fresh with me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

29:21  They listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

29:22  After my words, they did not go on, and my speech dropped on them.

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

29:24  I laughed on those when they did not believe, and they did not make the light of my face to fall.

29:25  I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king among the troops; as the mourners, and he who comforts.