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29:1  And Job again took up his parable, and said,
29:2  Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
29:3  When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
29:4  As I was in the ripeness of my days, when the secret of God was upon my tent;
29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
29:6  When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
29:7  When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,
29:8  The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
29:9  The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
29:10  The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
29:11  For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:
29:12  Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, 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 justice 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 needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
29:17  And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey 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 is spread out to the waters, and the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
29:20  My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
29:21  Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
29:22  After my words they spake 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.