Thematic Bible
Job 29:1 (show verse)
So Job proceeded and went forth in his communication, saying,
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Job 29:2 (show verse)
"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;
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Job 29:3 (show verse)
When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.
Job 29:4 (show verse)
As it stood with me, when I was young, when God prospered my house;
Job 29:5 (show verse)
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children stood about me;
Job 29:6 (show verse)
When my ways ran over with butter, and when the stony rocks gave me rivers of oil;
Job 29:7 (show verse)
When I went through the city unto the gate, and when they set me a chair in the street;
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Job 29:8 (show verse)
When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;
Job 29:9 (show verse)
when the princes left of their talking, and laid their hand to their mouth;
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Job 29:10 (show verse)
when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;
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Job 29:11 (show verse)
When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.
Job 29:12 (show verse)
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
Job 29:13 (show verse)
He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.
Job 29:14 (show verse)
And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown.
Job 29:15 (show verse)
I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame;
Job 29:16 (show verse)
I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.
Job 29:17 (show verse)
I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.
Job 29:18 (show verse)
"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.
Job 29:19 (show verse)
For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.
Job 29:20 (show verse)
My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand.
Job 29:21 (show verse)
Unto me men gave ear, me they regarded, and with silence they tarried for my counsel.
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Job 29:22 (show verse)
If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.
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Job 29:23 (show verse)
They waited for me, as the earth doth for the rain; and gaped upon me, as the ground doth to receive the latter shower.
Job 29:24 (show verse)
When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.
Job 29:25 (show verse)
When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.