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when by his light I walked through darkness.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><i>As</i> when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they that heard <i>me</i> blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of 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 helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><i>My</i> root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><i>Men</i> heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they <i>waited for</i> my speech.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe <i>it</i>; and the light of my face has not failed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<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"' title="Job 30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>