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29:1  Moreover Job continued his discourse:
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  as I was in the days of my autumn youth, when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
29:5  when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;
29:6  when my steps were bathed in butter, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
29:7  “When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
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 put their hand on their mouth.
29:10  The nobles held their peace, 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, and the fatherless, and him who had none to help him.
29:13  The blessing of the 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 judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
29:15  I was eyes for the blind, and I was feet for 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 jaws of the wicked and plucked the victim from his teeth.
29:18  “Then I said, ‘I will die in my nest, and I will 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  “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 like 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, and lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts mourners.