Job 29
1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;
6 When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
19 My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
20 My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.
21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24 I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.
Cross-references
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- 1Job 27:1, Job 13:12, Num 23:7
- 2Job 1:1–5, Job 1:10, Jer 31:28, Jud 1:1, Job 7:3, Psa 37:28
- 3Psa 18:28, Jhn 8:12, Jhn 12:46, Eph 5:8, Job 18:6, Job 22:28, Job 11:17, Pro 24:20
- 4Psa 25:14, Pro 3:32, Job 1:10, Psa 27:5, Job 15:8, Psa 91:1, Col 3:3
- 5Psa 128:3, Psa 127:3–5, Sng 3:1–2, Sng 2:4, Psa 30:7, Deu 33:27–29, Jos 1:9, Job 23:8–10
- 6Psa 81:16, Job 20:17, Deu 32:13–14, Deu 33:24, Gen 49:11
- 7Rut 4:1–2, Deu 16:18, Zec 8:16, Rut 4:11, Deu 21:19, Job 31:21
- 8Lev 19:32, Tit 3:1, Pro 16:31, Rom 13:7, 1Pe 5:5, Pro 20:8, 1Pe 2:17, Rom 13:3–4
- 9Job 21:5, Job 40:4, Pro 10:19, Jas 1:19, Pro 30:32, Job 7:11, Jdg 18:19, Job 4:2
- 10Psa 137:6, Ezk 3:26
- 11Luk 4:22, Job 31:20, Pro 29:2, Luk 11:27
- 12Psa 72:12, Pro 21:13, Jas 1:27, Exo 22:22–24, Psa 82:2–4, Psa 68:5, Pro 24:11–12, Deu 10:18
- 13Phm 1:7, 2Ti 1:16–18, Job 31:19–20, Job 22:9, Isa 27:13, Deu 24:13, Psa 67:4, 2Co 9:12–14
- 14Isa 61:10, Isa 59:17, Psa 132:9, Eph 6:14, Rev 19:8, Job 27:6, 2Co 6:7, Isa 62:3
- 15Num 10:31, Mat 11:5, 1Co 12:12–31
- 16Pro 29:7, Psa 68:5, Est 2:7, Job 31:18, Pro 25:2, Job 24:4, Eph 5:1, Deu 17:8–10
- 17Psa 3:7, Pro 30:14, Psa 58:8, Psa 124:6, 1Sa 17:35, Psa 124:3
- 18Psa 30:6–7, Job 42:16–17, Gen 32:12, Job 5:26, Jer 49:16, Psa 91:16, Oba 1:4, Hab 2:9
- 19Jer 17:8, Psa 1:3, Hos 14:5–7, Job 18:16
- 20Gen 49:24, Isa 40:31, Psa 18:34, 2Co 4:16, Gen 45:13, Psa 3:3, Psa 103:5, Job 29:14
- 21Job 32:11–12, Job 29:9–10
- 22Deu 32:2, Isa 52:15, Sng 4:11, Ezk 20:46, Mat 22:46, Mic 2:6, Job 33:31–33, Amo 7:16
- 23Hos 6:3, Psa 72:6, Zec 10:1
- 24Psa 126:1, Psa 89:15, Psa 4:6, Gen 45:26, Luk 24:41
- 252Co 1:3–4, Jdg 11:8, Isa 61:1–3, Isa 35:3–4, 1Th 3:2–3, Gen 41:40, Gen 14:14–17, 2Co 7:5–7