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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" /><title>Job 29 ESV</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><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" 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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/29.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job’s Summary Defense</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Job again took up his discourse, and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,</span><br /><span class="indent">as in the days when God watched over me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">when his lamp shone upon my head,</span><br /><span class="indent">and by his light I walked through darkness,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">as I was in my prime,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew my autumn days">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">when the friendship of God was upon my tent,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">when the Almighty was yet with me,</span><br /><span class="indent">when my children were all around me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">when my steps were washed with butter,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When I went out to the gate of the city,</span><br /><span class="indent">when I prepared my seat in the square,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the young men saw me and withdrew,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the aged rose and stood;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the princes refrained from talking</span><br /><span class="indent">and laid their hand on their mouth;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the voice of the nobles was hushed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When the ear heard, it called me blessed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and when the eye saw, it approved,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">because I delivered the poor who cried for help,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the fatherless who had none to help him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my justice was like a robe and a turban.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was eyes to the blind</span><br /><span class="indent">and feet to the lame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was a father to the needy,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I broke the fangs of the unrighteous</span><br /><span class="indent">and made him drop his prey from his teeth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I shall multiply my days as the sand,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">my roots spread out to the waters,</span><br /><span class="indent">with the dew all night on my branches,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">my glory fresh with me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my bow ever new in my hand.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Men listened to me and waited</span><br /><span class="indent">and kept silence for my counsel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">After I spoke they did not speak again,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my word dropped upon them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They waited for me as for the rain,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I smiled on them when they had no confidence,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the light of my face they did not cast down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I chose their way and sat as chief,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I lived like a king among his troops,</span><br /><span class="indent">like one who comforts mourners.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">my</span> autumn days</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The 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