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Job 29

25 verses · King James Version

  1. 1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,Compare translations of Job 29:1
  2. 2Oh that I were as months past, as the days God preserved me;Compare translations of Job 29:2
  3. 3When his candle shined upon my head, by his light I walked darkness;Compare translations of Job 29:3
  4. 4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God upon my tabernacle;Compare translations of Job 29:4
  5. 5When the Almighty yet with me, my children about me;Compare translations of Job 29:5
  6. 6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;Compare translations of Job 29:6
  7. 7When I went out to the gate through the city, I prepared my seat in the street!Compare translations of Job 29:7
  8. 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, stood up.Compare translations of Job 29:8
  9. 9The princes refrained talking, and laid hand on their mouth.Compare translations of Job 29:9
  10. 10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.Compare translations of Job 29:10
  11. 11When the ear heard then it blessed me; and when the eye saw it gave witness to me:Compare translations of Job 29:11
  12. 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and none to help him.Compare translations of Job 29:12
  13. 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Compare translations of Job 29:13
  14. 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment as a robe and a diadem.Compare translations of Job 29:14
  15. 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet I to the lame.Compare translations of Job 29:15
  16. 16I a father to the poor: and the cause I knew not I searched out.Compare translations of Job 29:16
  17. 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Compare translations of Job 29:17
  18. 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply days as the sand.Compare translations of Job 29:18
  19. 19My root spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.Compare translations of Job 29:19
  20. 20My glory fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.Compare translations of Job 29:20
  21. 21Unto me gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.Compare translations of Job 29:21
  22. 22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.Compare translations of Job 29:22
  23. 23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide for the latter rain.Compare translations of Job 29:23
  24. 24I laughed on them, they believed not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.Compare translations of Job 29:24
  25. 25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one comforteth the mourners.Compare translations of Job 29:25