Job 29
1Job again took up his parable, and said,
as in the days when God watched over me;
and by his light I walked through darkness,
when the friendship of God was in my tent,
and my children were around me,
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
when I prepared my seat in the street.
The aged rose up and stood.
and laid their hand on their mouth.
and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
and feet to the lame.
I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
I will count my days as the sand.
The dew lies all night on my branch.
My bow is renewed in my hand.’
and kept silence for my counsel.
My speech fell on them.
Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
They didn’t reject the light of my face.
I lived as a king in the army,
as one who comforts the mourners.