Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,Job 29:1

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;Job 29:2

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;Job 29:3

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;Job 29:4

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;Job 29:5

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;Job 29:6

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!Job 29:7

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.Job 29:8

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.Job 29:9

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.Job 29:10

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:Job 29:11

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.Job 29:12

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Job 29:13

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.Job 29:14

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.Job 29:15

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.Job 29:16

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Job 29:17

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.Job 29:18

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.Job 29:19

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.Job 29:20

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.Job 29:21

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.Job 29:22

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.Job 29:23

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.Job 29:24

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.Job 29:25