Job 29

¹Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

²Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

³When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

⁵When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

⁶When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

⁷When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.

⁹The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

¹⁰The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.

¹¹The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

¹²Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.

¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

¹⁴I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

¹⁵I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

¹⁶I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.