Job-29

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Job’s Final Defense Job continued his discourse:
  • 2 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
  • 3 when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
  • 4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
  • 5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
  • 6 when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
  • 7 “When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square,
  • 8 the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;
  • 9 the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;
  • 10 the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
  • 11 Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
  • 12 because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
  • 13 The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.
  • 14 I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
  • 15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
  • 16 I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.
  • 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.
  • 18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
  • 19 My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
  • 20 My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in my hand.’
  • 21 “People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel.
  • 22 After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears.
  • 23 They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.
  • 24 When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them. 29:24 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  • 25 I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
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