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Job 29 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 29
Job’s Summary Defense
Job Speaks of Past Wealth
1 Job further continued his discourse, and said:
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2 ​​“Oh, that I were as in months past,
​​As in the days when God watched over me;
3 ​​When His lamp shone upon my head,
​​And when by His light I walked through darkness;
4 ​​Just as I was in the days of my prime,
​​When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
5 ​​When the Almighty was yet with me,
​​When my children were around me;
6 ​​When my steps were bathed with cream,[fn]
​​And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!
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7 ​​“When I went out to the gate by the city,
​​When I took my seat in the open square,
8 ​​The young men saw me and hid,
​​And the aged arose and stood;
9 ​​The princes refrained from talking,
​​And put their hand on their mouth;
10 ​​The voice of nobles was hushed,
​​And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 ​​When the ear heard, then it blessed me,
​​And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
12 ​​Because I delivered the poor who cried out,
​​The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
13 ​​The blessing of a perishing man 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 like a robe and a turban.
15 ​​I was eyes to the blind,
​​And I was feet to the lame.
16 ​​I was a father to the poor,
​​And I searched out the case that I did not know.
17 ​​I broke the fangs of the wicked,
​​And plucked the victim from his teeth.
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18 ​​“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,
​​And multiply my days as the sand.
19 ​​My root is spread out to the waters,
​​And the dew lies all night on my branch.
20 ​​My glory is fresh within me,
​​And my bow is renewed in my hand.’
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21 ​​“Men listened to me and waited,
​​And kept silence for my counsel.
22 ​​After my words they did not speak again,
​​And my speech settled on them as dew.
23 ​​They waited for me as for the rain,
​​And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
24 ​​If I mocked at them, they did not believe it,
​​And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
25 ​​I chose the way for them, and sat as chief;
​​So I dwelt as a king in the army,
​​As one who comforts mourners.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Masoretic Text reads wrath; ancient versions and some Hebrew manuscripts read cream (compare 20:17).
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