Book of Job, Chapter 29
Job 29 ASV - American Standard VersionChapter 29 of Job—American Standard Version (ASV)
- ¶ And Job again took up his parable, and said,
- ¶ Oh that I were as in the months of old,
¶ As in the days when God watched over me; - ¶ When his lamp shined [a]upon my head,
¶ And by his light I walked through darkness; - ¶ As I was in [b]the ripeness of my days,
¶ When the [c]friendship of God was upon my tent; - ¶ When the Almighty was yet with me,
¶ And my children were about me; - ¶ When my steps were washed with butter,
¶ And the rock poured me out streams of oil! - ¶ When I went forth to the gate unto the city,
¶ When I prepared my seat in the [d]street, - ¶ The young men saw me and hid themselves,
¶ And the aged rose up and stood; - ¶ The princes refrained from talking,
¶ And laid their hand on their mouth; - ¶ The voice of the nobles was [e]hushed,
¶ And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. - ¶ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
¶ And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me: - ¶ Because I delivered the poor that cried,
¶ The fatherless also, [f]that had none to help him. - ¶ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;
¶ And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. - ¶ I put on righteousness, and it [g]clothed me:
¶ My justice was as a robe and a [h]diadem. - ¶ I was eyes to the blind,
¶ And feet was I to the lame. - ¶ I was a father to the needy:
¶ And [i]the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. - ¶ And I brake the [j]jaws of the unrighteous,
¶ And plucked the prey out of his teeth. - ¶ Then I said, I shall die [k]in my nest,
¶ And I shall multiply my days as the sand: - ¶ My root is [l]spread out [m]to the waters,
¶ And the dew lieth all night upon my branch: - ¶ My glory is fresh in me,
¶ And my bow is renewed in my hand. - ¶ Unto me men gave ear, and waited,
¶ And kept silence for my counsel. - ¶ After my words they spake not again;
¶ And my speech distilled upon them. - ¶ And they waited for me as for the rain;
¶ And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. - ¶ I smiled on them, when they had no confidence;
¶ And the light of my countenance they cast not down. - ¶ I chose out their way, and sat as chief,
¶ And dwelt as a king in the army,
¶ As one that comforteth the mourners.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, above
- ^ Hebrew my days of autumn.
- ^ Or, counsel
- ^ Or, broad place
- ^ Hebrew hid.
- ^ Or, and him that had etc.
- ^ Or, clothed itself with me
- ^ Or, turban
- ^ Or, the cause which I knew not
- ^ Hebrew great teeth.
- ^ Or, beside. Hebrew with.
- ^ Hebrew opened.
- ^ Or, by
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