Job 29 — KJVCP

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