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Job|29:1|-|Then Job again took up his discourse and said,
Job|29:2|-|Oh that I were as in the months of old,As in the days when God watched over me;
Job|29:3|-|When His lamp shone over my head,And by His light I walked through darkness;
Job|29:4|-|As I was in the days of my |1|prime,When |a|intimate counsel with God was over my tent;
Job|29:5|-|When the Almighty was yet with me,And my children were around me;
Job|29:6|-|When my steps were bathed in milk,And the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
Job|29:7|-|When I went out to the gate of the city,When I prepared my seat in the square,
Job|29:8|-|The young men saw me and hid themselves,And the aged rose up and stood.
Job|29:9|-|Princes refrained from talkingAnd laid their hand over their mouth.
Job|29:10|-|The voice of the nobles was hushed,And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job|29:11|-|For when the ear heard me, it blessed me;And when the eye saw me, it bore witness to me;
Job|29:12|-|Because I delivered the poor man who cried out,And the orphan who had no one to help him.
Job|29:13|-|The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me,And I made the widow’s heart shout for joy.
Job|29:14|-|I put on |a|righteousness, and it clothed me;My justice was like a robe and a turban.
Job|29:15|-|I was eyes to the blind,And I was feet to the lame.
Job|29:16|-|I was a father to the needy,And the cause of him whom I did not know I investigated.
Job|29:17|-|I broke the jaws of the unjustAnd made him drop the prey from his teeth.
Job|29:18|-|Then I said, I will die in my nest,And I will multiply my days like the sand.
Job|29:19|-|My root is spread out to the water,And dew abides on my branch at night.
Job|29:20|-|My glory is always new with me,And my bow is renewed in my hand.
Job|29:21|-|Men listened to me and waited,And they were silent for my counsel.
Job|29:22|-|After my words they spoke not again,And my speech distilled like |a|dew upon them.
Job|29:23|-|And they waited for me as for the rain,And they opened their mouth wide as for the late rain.
Job|29:24|-|I smiled on them—they could not believe it;And they did not cast down the light of my countenance.
Job|29:25|-|I chose the way for them and sat as chief,And I dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who comforts those who mourn.
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