Job 29 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 And Job again took up the word and said,
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;
4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5 While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;
5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
6 When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.
6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7 When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
7 when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;
9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13 The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
16 I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
17 By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
18 Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
19 My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,
19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
20 My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.
20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
21 Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.
21 “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
22 After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
23 They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
25 I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...
25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 27:1; Numbers 23:7; Job 13:12
- 2 Job 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28; Job 1:1–5; Job 7:3; Psalm 37:28
- 3 Psalm 18:28; John 8:12; Job 18:6; Ephesians 5:8; John 12:46
- 4 Psalm 25:14; Proverbs 3:32; Job 15:8; Job 1:10; Psalm 27:5
- 5 Psalm 128:3; Psalm 127:3–5; Deuteronomy 33:27–29; Song of Songs 2:4; Joshua 1:9
- 6 Psalm 81:16; Job 20:17; Genesis 49:11; Deuteronomy 32:13–14; Deuteronomy 33:24
- 7 Ruth 4:1–2; Zechariah 8:16; Deuteronomy 16:18; Ruth 4:11; Job 31:21
- 8 Leviticus 19:32; Romans 13:7; 1 Peter 5:5; Proverbs 16:31; Titus 3:1
- 9 Job 21:5; Proverbs 10:19; Job 40:4; James 1:19; Proverbs 30:32
- 10 Psalm 137:6; Ezekiel 3:26
- 11 Luke 4:22; Proverbs 29:2; Job 31:20; Luke 11:27
- 12 Psalm 72:12; Proverbs 21:13; Exodus 22:22–24; James 1:27; Proverbs 24:11–12
- 13 2 Timothy 1:16–18; Philemon 7; Isaiah 27:13; Job 22:9; Job 31:19–20
- 14 Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 59:17; Psalm 132:9; Ephesians 6:14; Revelation 19:8
- 15 Numbers 10:31; Matthew 11:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12–31
- 16 Proverbs 29:7; Psalm 68:5; Esther 2:7; Proverbs 25:2; Job 24:4
- 17 Psalm 3:7; Proverbs 30:14; 1 Samuel 17:35; Psalm 124:6; Psalm 58:8
- 18 Psalm 30:6–7; Obadiah 4; Job 5:26; Jeremiah 49:16; Genesis 32:12
- 19 Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 1:3; Hosea 14:5–7; Job 18:16
- 20 Genesis 49:24; Isaiah 40:31; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Psalm 18:34; Psalm 103:5
- 21 Job 32:11–12; Job 29:9–10
- 22 Deuteronomy 32:2; Song of Songs 4:11; Ezekiel 20:46; Matthew 22:46; Isaiah 52:15
- 23 Hosea 6:3; Psalm 72:6; Zechariah 10:1
- 24 Psalm 126:1; Psalm 4:6; Psalm 89:15; Luke 24:41; Genesis 45:26
- 25 2 Corinthians 1:3–4; Isaiah 35:3–4; Genesis 14:14–17; Isaiah 61:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 3:2–3
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