chapter_Job_29
Job 29:1: And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: &#8212; Job 29:2: Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me? Job 29:3: In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness. Job 29:4: As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent. Job 29:5: When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me &#8212; my young ones, Job 29:6: When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil. Job 29:7: When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat. Job 29:8: Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen &#8212; they stood up. Job 29:9: Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth. Job 29:10: The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved. Job 29:11: For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me. Job 29:12: For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. Job 29:13: The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. Job 29:14: Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. Job 29:15: Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. Job 29:16: A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. Job 29:17: And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey. Job 29:18: And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.' Job 29:19: My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch. Job 29:20: My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed. Job 29:21: To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel. Job 29:22: After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop, Job 29:23: And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain. Job 29:24: I laugh unto them &#8212; they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall. Job 29:25: I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
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