Job 29:1 (KJV)
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

Job 29:2 (KJV)
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Job 29:3 (KJV)
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 29:4 (KJV)
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

Job 29:5 (KJV)
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Job 29:6 (KJV)
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

Job 29:7 (KJV)
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Job 29:8 (KJV)
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

Job 29:9 (KJV)
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Job 29:10 (KJV)
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Job 29:11 (KJV)
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Job 29:12 (KJV)
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 29:13 (KJV)
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 (KJV)
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

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

Job 29:16 (KJV)
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Job 29:17 (KJV)
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Job 29:18 (KJV)
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Job 29:19 (KJV)
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

Job 29:20 (KJV)
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Job 29:21 (KJV)
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 29:22 (KJV)
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Job 29:23 (KJV)
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

Job 29:24 (KJV)
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Job 29:25 (KJV)
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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