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29:1  Job further continued his discourse, and said:
29:2  “Oh, that I were as in months past, As in the days when God watched over me;
29:3  When His lamp shone upon my head, And when by His light I walked through darkness;
29:4  Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me;
29:6  When my steps were bathed with cream, And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
29:7  “When I went out to the gate by the city, When I took my seat in the open square,
29:8  The young men saw me and hid, And the aged arose and stood;
29:9  The princes refrained from talking, And put their hand on their mouth;
29:10  The voice of nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
29:11  When the ear heard, then it blessed me, And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
29:12  Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
29:13  The blessing of a perishing man 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 like a robe and a turban.
29:15  I was eyes to the blind, And I was feet to the lame.
29:16  I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.
29:17  I broke the fangs of the wicked, And plucked the victim from his teeth.
29:18  “Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest, And multiply my days as the sand.
29:19  My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lies all night on my branch.
29:20  My glory is fresh within me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.’
29:21  “Men listened to me and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
29:22  After my words they did not speak again, And my speech settled on them as dew.
29:23  They waited for me as for the rain, And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
29:24  If I mocked at them, they did not believe it, And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
29:25  I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one who comforts mourners.