Job 29
29:1But still Job proceeding spoke the retort.
29:2O that he might have put me according to the month before the days of which God guarded me;
29:3as when his lamp shone over my head; when I went through darkness by his light;
29:4when I was in the days of my youth; when God overseeing dealt with my house;
29:5when I was exceedingly flush, and round about me were my children;
29:6when my ways poured forth butter, and my mountains poured forth milk;
29:7when I went forth at daybreak into the city, and they placed my chair in the squares.
29:8In beholding me, the young men hid, and all the old men stood.
29:9And the stout men ceased speaking, placing their finger to their mouth.
29:10And the ones hearing declared me blessed; and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
29:11For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye beholding me, turned aside.
29:12For I delivered the poor from out of the hand of the mighty one; and the orphan in whom there was no helper, I helped.
29:13May the blessing of the one perishing come upon me; for the mouth of the widow blessed me.
29:14And righteousness I had put on, and I clothed on judgment equal to a double garment.
29:15I was the eye of the blind, and the foot for the lame.
29:16I was the father of the disabled; and I tracked out the cause which I knew not.
29:17And I broke the molars of unjust ones; and from out of the midst of their teeth I pulled out the prey.
29:18And I said, My stature shall grow old as the trunk of a palm; I shall spend life with much time.
29:19The root was widened upon the water, and the dew lodged among my harvest.
29:20My glory was new with me, and my bow went forth in his hand.
29:21Men hearing of me took heed, and kept silent over my counsel.
29:22At my word they proceeded not; but they became overjoyed when I spoke to them.
29:23As the earth thirsting, favorably receiving the rain, so were these at my speech.
29:24If I should have laughed on them, in no way should they have trusted the thing; and the light of my face was not fallen away.
29:25I chose their way, and I sat as ruler; and I encamped as king among armed ones, in which manner comforting mourners.