Job 29
1 Also Job added, taking his parable, and said,
2 Who giveth to me, that I be beside the eld months, by the days in which God kept me?
3 When his lantern shined on mine head, and I went in darknesses at his light.
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when in private God was in my tabernacle.
5 When Almighty God was with me, and my children were in my compass;
6 when I washed my feet in or with butter, and the stone shedded or poured out to me the streams or rivers of oil;
7 when I went forth to the gate of the city, and in the street they made ready a chair to me.
8 Young wanton men saw me, and were hid, and eld or old men rising up stood;
9 princes ceased to speak, and they putted their finger on their mouth;
10 dukes refrained their voice, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
11 The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, yielded witnessing to me;
12 for I delivered the poor man crying out, and the fatherless child, that had no helper.
13 The blessing of a man ready to perish came on me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
14 I was clothed with rightfulness or rightwiseness; and I clothed me as with a cloth, and with my doom a diadem.
15 I was eye to a blind man, and foot to a crooked man.
16 I was a father of poor men; and I inquired most diligently the cause, which I knew not.
17 I all-brake the great teeth of the wicked man, and I took away the prey from his teeth.
18 And I said, I shall die in my nest; and as a palm tree I shall multiply my days.
19 My root is opened beside waters, and dew shall dwell in my reaping.
20 My glory shall evermore be renewed, and my bow shall be restored in mine hand.
21 They, that heard me, abided my sentence; and they were attentive, or taking heed to me, and they were still at my counsel.
22 They durst nothing add to my words; and my speech dropped upon them.
23 They abided me as rain; and they opened their mouth as to the soft rain coming late.
24 If any time I laughed to them, they believed not; and the light of my cheer, that is, the gladness of my face, felled not down into the earth.
25 If I would go to them, I sat the first; and when I sat as a king, while the host stood about, nevertheless I was the comforter of them that mourned.
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