Job 29
Job's Final Defense: My Life in the Past
1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, Parallel theme: Job 27:1
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; Parallel theme: Job 1:10, Jeremiah 31:28
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; Light: Job 18:6, 22:28, Psalms 18:28, John 8:12, 12:46, Ephesians 5:8. Parallel theme: Job 11:17, Psalms 84:11, Proverbs 24:20, Isaiah 2:4 +5
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; References God: Job 15:8. Temple: Psalms 27:5. Parallel theme: Job 1:10, Psalms 25:14, Proverbs 3:32
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; Related: Song of Solomon 2:4. Parallel theme: Joshua 1:9, Psalms 30:7, 128:3
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Parallel theme: Job 20:17, Genesis 49:11, Deuteronomy 33:24, Psalms 81:16
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 16:18, Ruth 4:11, Zechariah 8:16
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. Parallel theme: Leviticus 19:32, Proverbs 16:31, Romans 13:7, Titus 3:1, 1 Peter 5:5
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. Parallel theme: Job 21:5, 40:4, Proverbs 10:19, 30:32, James 1:19
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. Parallel theme: Psalms 137:6, Ezekiel 3:26
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Witness: Luke 4:22. Blessing: Job 31:20. Parallel theme: Proverbs 29:2
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 10:18, Psalms 68:5, 72:12, Proverbs 21:13, James 1:27
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. Parallel theme: Job 22:9, Isaiah 27:13, Philemon 1:7
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. Righteousness: Job 27:6, Deuteronomy 24:13, Psalms 132:9, Isaiah 59:17, 61:10, 2 Corinthians 6:7, Ephesians 6:14, Revelation 19:8. Parallel theme: Isaiah 62:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:8 +5
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. Parallel theme: Numbers 10:31, Matthew 11:5
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Parallel theme: Job 31:18, Esther 2:7, Psalms 68:5, Proverbs 25:2, 29:7
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. Parallel theme: 1 Samuel 17:35, Psalms 3:7, 58:8, 124:6, Proverbs 30:14
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. Parallel theme: Job 5:26, Genesis 32:12, Psalms 91:16, Jeremiah 49:16, Obadiah 1:4
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Parallel theme: Job 18:16, Psalms 1:3, Jeremiah 17:8
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. Glory: Genesis 45:13, Psalms 3:3. Parallel theme: Genesis 49:24, Psalms 18:34, 103:5, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 4:16 +2
21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. Word: Ezekiel 20:46, Matthew 22:46. Related: Song of Solomon 4:11. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 32:2, Isaiah 52:15
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. Parallel theme: Psalms 72:6, Hosea 6:3, Zechariah 10:1
24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. Faith: Genesis 45:26, Luke 24:41. Light: Psalms 4:6, 89:15. Parallel theme: Psalms 126:1
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. Parallel theme: Genesis 41:40, Judges 11:8