Job29

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(Job 29:1) Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
(Job 29:2) Oh that I were as {in} months past, as {in} the days {when} God preserved me;
(Job 29:3) When his candle shined upon my head, {and when} by his light I walked {through} darkness;
(Job 29:4) As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God {was} upon my tabernacle;
(Job 29:5) When the Almighty {was} yet with me, {when} my children {were} about me;
(Job 29:6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
(Job 29:7) When I went out to the gate through the city, {when} I prepared my seat in the street!
(Job 29:8) The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, {and} stood up.
(Job 29:9) The princes refrained talking, and laid {their} hand on their mouth.
(Job 29:10) The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
(Job 29:11) When the ear heard {me}, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw {me}, it gave witness to me:
(Job 29:12) Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and {him that had} none to help him.
(Job 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.
(Job 29:14) I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment {was} as a robe and a diadem.
(Job 29:15) I was eyes to the blind, and feet {was} I to the Lame.
(Job 29:16) I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.
(Job 29:17) And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
(Job 29:18) Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply {my} days as the sand.
(Job 29:19) My root {was} spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
(Job 29:20) My glory {was} Fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
(Job 29:21) Unto me {men} gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
(Job 29:22) After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
(Job 29:23) And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide {as} for the latter rain.
(Job 29:24) {If} I laughed on them, they believed {it} not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
(Job 29:25) I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one {that} comforteth the mourners.
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