King James Version

Job 29

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 29:1

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Open Job 29:2

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
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Open Job 29:3

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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Open Job 29:4

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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Open Job 29:5

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
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Open Job 29:6

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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Open Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
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Open Job 29:8

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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Open Job 29:9

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
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Open Job 29:10

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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Open Job 29:11

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
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Open Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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Open Job 29:13

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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Open Job 29:14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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Open Job 29:15

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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Open Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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Open Job 29:17

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Open Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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Open Job 29:19

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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Open Job 29:20

My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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Open Job 29:21

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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Open Job 29:22

After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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Open Job 29:23

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
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Open Job 29:24

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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Open Job 29:25

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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