jub - Job:29

jub@Job:29:1 @ Moreover, Job continued his parable and said,

jub@Job:29:2 @ Oh, that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

jub@Job:29:3 @ when his candle shone upon my head, and by its light I walked in the darkness;

jub@Job:29:4 @ as I was in the days of my youth, when God was familiar in my tent;

jub@Job:29:5 @ when the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;

jub@Job:29:6 @ when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

jub@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate to judgment, [when] I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

jub@Job:29:8 @ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise [and] stand.

jub@Job:29:9 @ The princes would refrain from talking and lay [their] hand on their mouth;

jub@Job:29:10 @ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.

jub@Job:29:11 @ When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me:

jub@Job:29:12 @ because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

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

jub@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

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

jub@Job:29:16 @ I [was] a father to the needy; and the cause [which] I did not know I searched out.

jub@Job:29:17 @ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.

jub@Job:29:18 @ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

jub@Job:29:19 @ My root [is] spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches.

jub@Job:29:20 @ My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

jub@Job:29:21 @ They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel.

jub@Job:29:22 @ After my words they would not reply, but my reason dropped upon them.

jub@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

jub@Job:29:24 @ [If] I laughed at them, they did not believe [it]; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

jub@Job:29:25 @ I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforts the mourners.: