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.