Job 29 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job's Past Was Glorious

Job 29:1

Job 29:1Iyov again took up his parable, and said,

Job 29:2

Job 29:2"Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

Job 29:3

Job 29:3When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 29:4

Job 29:4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;

Job 29:5

Job 29:5When Shaddai was yet with me, And my children were around me;

Job 29:6

Job 29:6When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

Job 29:7

Job 29:7When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

Job 29:8

Job 29:8The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;

Job 29:9

Job 29:9The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

Job 29:10

Job 29:10The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

Job 29:11

Job 29:11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Job 29:12

Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

Job 29:13

Job 29:13The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:14

Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:15

Job 29:15I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

Job 29:16

Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

Job 29:17

Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Job 29:18

Job 29:18Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

Job 29:19

Job 29:19My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;

Job 29:20

Job 29:20My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

Job 29:21

Job 29:21"Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22

Job 29:22After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.

Job 29:23

Job 29:23They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 29:24

Job 29:24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

Job 29:25

Job 29:25I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 29 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job's Past Was Glorious

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