Job 29 · Clearspring

Job’s Former Blessings

¹Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,+ ²Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;+ ³When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;+ ⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;+ ⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;+ ⁶When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;+ ⁷When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!+ ⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.+ ⁹The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.+ ¹⁰The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.+ ¹¹When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:+ ¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.+ ¹³The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.+ ¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.+ ¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.+ ¹⁶I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.+ ¹⁷And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.+ ¹⁸Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.+ ¹⁹My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.+ ²⁰My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.+ ²¹Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.+ ²²After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.+ ²³And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.+ ²⁴If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.+ ²⁵I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.+

Job’s Former Blessings

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