(DB) Job 29 : 1 And Job continued his parable and said,
(DB) Job 29 : 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
(DB) Job 29 : 3 When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
(DB) Job 29 : 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
(DB) Job 29 : 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
(DB) Job 29 : 6 When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
(DB) Job 29 : 7 When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
(DB) Job 29 : 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
(DB) Job 29 : 9 Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
(DB) Job 29 : 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
(DB) Job 29 : 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
(DB) Job 29 : 12 For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
(DB) Job 29 : 13 The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
(DB) Job 29 : 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
(DB) Job 29 : 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
(DB) Job 29 : 16 I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
(DB) Job 29 : 17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
(DB) Job 29 : 18 And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
(DB) Job 29 : 19 My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
(DB) Job 29 : 20 My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
(DB) Job 29 : 21 Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
(DB) Job 29 : 22 After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
(DB) Job 29 : 23 And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
(DB) Job 29 : 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
(DB) Job 29 : 25 I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.