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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Job 29 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > Job 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/28.htm" title="Job 28">◄</a> Job 29 <a href="../job/30.htm" title="Job 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/job/29.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job's Former Blessings</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Job again took up his parable, and said, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’ </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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