King James Bible

 

The Book of Job

 

Chapter 29

 

 

1.

 

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

    
 
 

2.

 

Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

    
 
 

3.

 

When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;

    
 
 

4.

 

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;

    
 
 

5.

 

When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;

    
 
 

6.

 

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

    
 
 

7.

 

When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!

    
 
 

8.

 

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.

    
 
 

9.

 

The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.

    
 
 

10.

 

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

    
 
 

11.

 

When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:

    
 
 

12.

 

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him 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 judgment [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 poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.

    
 
 

17.

 

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil 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 [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

    
 
 

20.

 

My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

    
 
 

21.

 

Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

    
 
 

22.

 

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

    
 
 

23.

 

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

    
 
 

24.

 

[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

    
 
 

25.

 

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

    
 
 

Job 30

 

 

 

 

 
 
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