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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 candle shone upon my head, and when by His light I walked through darkness,
29:4  as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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 through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
29:8  The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged arose and stood up.
29:9  The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
29:10  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
29:11  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
29:12  because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless and him that had none to help him.
29:13  The blessing of him 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; my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
29:16  I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
29:17  And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
29:18  “Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.’
29:19  My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
29:20  My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
29:21  “Unto me men gave ear and waited, and kept silence at 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 the light of my countenance they cast not down.
29:25  I chose out their way and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.