Job 29:1--30:31

29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 29:2 Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me; 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness; 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle; 29:5 When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me; 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 29:11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. 29:16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. 29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand. 29:19 My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 29:20 My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 29:21 Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. 29:24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners. 30:1 But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 30:2 Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? 30:3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat. 30:5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;) 30:6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. 30:12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. 30:14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 30:18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not]. 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. 30:23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living. 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 30:31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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Job 29:1--30:31

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