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class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Job’s Former Blessings<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' 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