Job 29
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,🔗🔍
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;🔗🔍
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;🔗🔍
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;🔗🔍
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;🔗🔍
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;🔗🔍
7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!🔗🔍
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.🔗🔍
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.🔗🔍
10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.🔗🔍
11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:🔗🔍
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.🔗🔍
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.🔗🔍
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.🔗🔍
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.🔗🔍
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.🔗🔍
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.🔗🔍
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.🔗🔍
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.🔗🔍
20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.🔗🔍
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.🔗🔍
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.🔗🔍
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.🔗🔍
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.🔗🔍
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.🔗🔍
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;🔗🔍
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;🔗🔍
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;🔗🔍
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;🔗🔍
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;🔗🔍
7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!🔗🔍
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.🔗🔍
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.🔗🔍
10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.🔗🔍
11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:🔗🔍
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.🔗🔍
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.🔗🔍
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.🔗🔍
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.🔗🔍
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.🔗🔍
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.🔗🔍
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.🔗🔍
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.🔗🔍
20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.🔗🔍
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.🔗🔍
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.🔗🔍
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.🔗🔍
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.🔗🔍
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.🔗🔍
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