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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 lamp shone upon my head, and by its light I walked in the darkness;
29:4  as I was in the days of my youth, when God was familiar in my tent;
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 to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!
29:8  The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand.
29:9  The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth;
29:10  the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.
29:11  When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me:
29:12  because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.
29:13  The blessing of the one 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 as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.
29:15  I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
29:16  I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.
29:17  And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.
29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
29:19  My root is spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches.
29:20  My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
29:21  They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel.
29:22  After my words they would not reply, but my reason 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 at them, they did not believe it; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.
29:25  I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.