ABP - Job - 29

29:1  But still Job proceeding spoke the retort.

29:2  O that he might have put me according to the month before the days of which [3me 1God 2guarded];

29:3  as when [2shone 1his lamp] over my head; when [4by his light 1I went 2through 3darkness];

29:4  when I was in the days of my youth; when God overseeing dealt with my house;

29:5  when I was [2flush 1exceedingly], and round about me were my children;

29:6  when [2poured forth 1my ways] butter, and my mountains poured forth milk;

29:7  when I went forth at daybreak into the city, [5in 1and 6the squares 2they placed 3my 4chair].

29:8  In beholding me, the young men hid, [3the old men 1and 2all] stood.

29:9  And the stout men ceased speaking, [2their finger 1placing] to their mouth.

29:10  And the ones hearing declared me blessed; and their tongue [2to 3their throat 1cleaved].

29:11  For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye beholding me, turned aside.

29:12  For I delivered the poor from out of the hand of the mighty one; and the orphan in whom there was no helper, I helped.

29:13  [2the blessing 3of the one perishing 5upon 6me 1May 4come]; for the mouth of the widow blessed me.

29:14  And righteousness I had put on, and I clothed on judgment equal to a double garment.

29:15  I was the eye of the blind, and the foot for the lame.

29:16  I was the father of the disabled; [3the cause 1and 4which 5I knew not 2I tracked out].

29:17  And I broke the molars of unjust ones; and from out of the midst of their teeth [2the prey 1I pulled out].

29:18  And I said, My stature shall grow old as the trunk of a palm; [2with much 3time 1I shall spend life].

29:19  The root was widened upon the water, and the dew lodged among my harvest.

29:20  My glory was new with me, and my bow [2in 3his hand 1went forth].

29:21  Men hearing of me took heed, and kept silent over my counsel.

29:22  At my word they proceeded not; [3overjoyed 1but 2they became] when I spoke to them.

29:23  As the earth thirsting, favorably receiving the rain, so were these at my speech.

29:24  If I should have laughed on them, in no way should they have trusted the thing; and the light of my face was not fallen away.

29:25  I chose their way, and I sat as ruler; and I encamped as king among armed ones, in which manner [2mourners 1comforting].