Job

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