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