Job 29 | ASV Bible Study

Job 29:1 (ASV)
And Job again took up his parable, and said,

Job 29:2 (ASV)
Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Job 29:3 (ASV)
When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 29:4 (ASV)
As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

Job 29:5 (ASV)
When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;

Job 29:6 (ASV)
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

Job 29:7 (ASV)
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Job 29:8 (ASV)
The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

Job 29:9 (ASV)
The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

Job 29:10 (ASV)
The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Job 29:11 (ASV)
For when the ear heard `me', then it blessed me; And when the eye saw `me', it gave witness unto me:

Job 29:12 (ASV)
Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Job 29:13 (ASV)
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 (ASV)
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:15 (ASV)
I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

Job 29:16 (ASV)
I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Job 29:17 (ASV)
And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Job 29:18 (ASV)
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

Job 29:19 (ASV)
My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;

Job 29:20 (ASV)
My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.

Job 29:21 (ASV)
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22 (ASV)
After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.

Job 29:23 (ASV)
And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide `as' for the latter rain.

Job 29:24 (ASV)
I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Job 29:25 (ASV)
I chose out their way, and sat `as' chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

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