<TITLE>Job 29</TITLE><BR>Job 29<BR>1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,<BR>2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;<BR>3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;<BR>4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;<BR>5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;<BR>6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;<BR>7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!<BR>8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.<BR>9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.<BR>10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.<BR>11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:<BR>12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.<BR>13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.<BR>14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.<BR>15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.<BR>16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.<BR>17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.<BR>18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.<BR>19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.<BR>20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.<BR>21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.<BR>22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.<BR>23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.<BR>24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.<BR>25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.<BR><BR><BR>