Thematic Bible
Job 29:1 (show verse)
And Job continued his parable and said,
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Job 29:2 (show verse)
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
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Job 29:3 (show verse)
When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
Job 29:4 (show verse)
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
Job 29:5 (show verse)
When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
Job 29:6 (show verse)
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
Job 29:7 (show verse)
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
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Job 29:8 (show verse)
The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
Job 29:9 (show verse)
Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
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Job 29:10 (show verse)
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
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Job 29:11 (show verse)
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
Job 29:12 (show verse)
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 29:13 (show verse)
The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14 (show verse)
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
Job 29:15 (show verse)
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
Job 29:16 (show verse)
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
Job 29:17 (show verse)
And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job 29:18 (show verse)
And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
Job 29:19 (show verse)
My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
Job 29:20 (show verse)
My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
Job 29:21 (show verse)
Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
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Job 29:22 (show verse)
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
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Job 29:23 (show verse)
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job 29:24 (show verse)
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
Job 29:25 (show verse)
I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.