Job:29:3: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Job:29:4: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job:29:5: When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job:29:6: When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job:29:7: When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job:29:8: The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job:29:9: The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job:29:10: The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job:29:11: When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job:29:12: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job:29:13: 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: I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job:29:15: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job:29:16: I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job:29:17: And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job:29:18: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job:29:19: My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job:29:20: My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job:29:21: Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job:29:22: After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job:29:23: And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job:29:24: If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job:29:25: I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Chapter 30
Job:30:1: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job:30:2: Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job:30:3: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job:30:4: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job:30:5: They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job:30:6: To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job:30:7: Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job:30:8: They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job:30:9: And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
