1 And Job continued his parable and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of God was over my tent, 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me; 6 When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ... 7 When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway, 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up; 9 Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate. 11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me; 12 For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper. 13 The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; 16 I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; 17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18 And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand; 19 My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; 20 My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel: 22 After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them; 23 And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance. 25 I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.
Job 29 Darby Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- 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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