Job 29 — parallel

29:1

And Job continued and said in his parable,

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29:2

Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!

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29:3

As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

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29:4

[As] when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

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29:5

When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;

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29:6

when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.

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29:7

When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

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29:8

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.

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29:9

And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

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29:10

And they that heard [me] blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.

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29:11

For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

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29:12

For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

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29:13

Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

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29:14

Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

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29:15

I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

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29:16

I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

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29:17

And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

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29:18

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

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29:19

[My] root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

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29:20

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow prospered in his hand.

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29:21

[Men] heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

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29:22

At my word they spoke not again, and they were very glad whenever I spoke to them.

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29:23

As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they [waited for] my speech.

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29:24

Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe [it]; and the light of my face has not failed.

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29:25

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

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