Job 29 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, "

" Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved "

" When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; "

" As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; "

" When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about "

" When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; "

" When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! "

" The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. "

" The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. "

" The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. "

" When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness "

" Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help "

" The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. "

" I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. "

" I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. "

" I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. "

" And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. "

" Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. "

" My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. "

" My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. "

" Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. "

" After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped "

" And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. "

" If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. "

" I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. "