jps - 29

jps@Job:29:1 @ And Job again took up his parable, and said:

jps@Job:29:2 @ Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

jps@Job:29:3 @ When His lamp shined above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

jps@Job:29:4 @ As I was in the days of my youth, when the converse of God was upon my tent;

jps@Job:29:5 @ When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;

jps@Job:29:6 @ When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

jps@Job:29:7 @ When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the broad place,

jps@Job:29:8 @ The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;

jps@Job:29:9 @ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

jps@Job:29:10 @ The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

jps@Job:29:11 @ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;

jps@Job:29:12 @ Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.

jps@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

jps@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.

jps@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

jps@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

jps@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

jps@Job:29:18 @ Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;

jps@Job:29:19 @ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;

jps@Job:29:20 @ My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'

jps@Job:29:21 @ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

jps@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

jps@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

jps@Job:29:24 @ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

jps@Job:29:25 @ I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 29