### World English Bible

Job 28

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 29
#### 1 | Job again took up his parable, and said,
#### 2 | 'Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
#### 3 | When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
#### 4 | As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;
#### 5 | When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;
#### 6 | When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!
#### 7 | When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,
#### 8 | The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;
#### 9 | The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;
#### 10 | The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
#### 11 | For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:
#### 12 | Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.
#### 13 | The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
#### 14 | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
#### 15 | I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.
#### 16 | I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
#### 17 | I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
#### 18 | Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
#### 19 | My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;
#### 20 | My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'
#### 21 | 'Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
#### 22 | After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.
#### 23 | They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
#### 24 | I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.
#### 25 | I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

Job 30

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