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29:1  Job again took up his discourse and said:
29:2  ‘O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
29:3  when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
29:4  when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
29:5  when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;
29:6  when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
29:7  When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
29:8  the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood;
29:9  the nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths;
29:10  the voices of princes were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
29:11  When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved;
29:12  because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
29:13  The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
29:14  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
29:16  I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
29:17  I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
29:18  Then I thought, “I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;
29:19  my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches;
29:20  my glory was fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.”
29:21  ‘They listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
29:22  After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew.
29:23  They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
29:24  I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.
29:25  I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.