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29:1  And 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 over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
29:4  As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
29:6  When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
29:7  When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
29:8  The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
29:9  Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
29:10  The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
29:11  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
29:12  For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
29:13  The blessing of him that was perishing 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 justice was as a mantle and a turban.
29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
29:16  I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
29:17  And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
29:18  And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
29:19  My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
29:20  My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
29:21  Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
29:22  After my words they spoke 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 they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
29:25  I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.