Job 29 NKJV

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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">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/29.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job’s Summary Defense</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-29-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Job further continued his discourse, and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Oh, that I were as <i>in</i> months past,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-2">As <i>in</i> the days <i>when</i> God watched over me;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When His lamp shone upon my head,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-3"><i>And when</i> by His light I walked <i>through</i> darkness;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Just as I was in the days of my prime,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-4">When the friendly counsel of God <i>was</i> over my tent;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the Almighty <i>was</i> yet with me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-5"><i>When</i> my children <i>were</i> around me;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When my steps were bathed with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>cream,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-6">And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“When I went out to the gate by the city,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-7"><i>When</i> I took my seat in the open square,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The young men saw me and hid,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-8">And the aged arose <i>and</i> stood;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The princes refrained from talking,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-9">And put <i>their</i> hand on their mouth;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The voice of nobles was hushed,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-10">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>When the ear heard, then it blessed me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-11">And when the eye saw, then it approved me;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Because I delivered the poor who cried out,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-12">The fatherless and <i>the one who</i> had no helper.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The blessing of a perishing <i>man</i> came upon me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-13">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>I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-14">My justice <i>was</i> 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>I <i>was</i> eyes to the blind,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-15">And I <i>was</i> feet to the lame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I <i>was</i> a father to the poor,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-16">And I searched out the case <i>that</i> I did not know.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I broke the fangs of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-17">And plucked the victim from his teeth.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-18">And multiply <i>my</i> days as the sand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My root <i>is</i> spread out to the waters,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-19">And the dew lies all night on my branch.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My glory <i>is</i> fresh within me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-20">And my bow is renewed in my hand.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“<i>Men</i> listened to me and waited,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-21">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>After my words they did not speak again,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-22">And my speech settled on them <i>as dew.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They waited for me <i>as</i> for the rain,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-23">And they opened their mouth wide <i>as</i> for the spring rain.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><i>If</i> I mocked at them, they did not believe <i>it,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-29-24">And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/29-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I chose the way for them, and sat as chief;</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-25">So I dwelt as a king in the army,</span><br /><span class="text Job-29-25">As one <i>who</i> comforts mourners.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13539a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 29:6">Job 29:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with ancient vss. and a few Heb. mss. (cf. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Job.20.17" href="/passage/?search=Job.20.17&version=NKJV">Job 20:17</span>); MT <i>wrath</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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