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Job 29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; Job 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; Job 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; Job 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! Job 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. Job 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. Job 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. Job 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. Job 29:13 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 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. Job 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Job 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. Job 29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Job 29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. Job 29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. Job 29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. Job 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Job 30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? Job 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. Job 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) Job 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Job 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. Job 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Job 30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. Job 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Job 30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. Job 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. Job 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Job 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Job 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. Job 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |