Job

Chapter 29

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¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,1 sermon²Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;1 sermon³When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;3 sermons⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;1 sermon⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;1 sermon⁶When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;1 sermon⁷When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!1 sermon⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.1 sermon⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.1 sermon¹⁰The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.1 sermon¹¹When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:1 sermon¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.1 sermon¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.1 sermon¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.1 sermon¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.1 sermon¹⁶I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.1 sermon¹⁷And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.1 sermon¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.1 sermon¹⁹My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.1 sermon²⁰My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.1 sermon²¹Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.1 sermon²²After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.1 sermon²³And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.1 sermon²⁴If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.1 sermon²⁵I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.1 sermon