29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish 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 judgment was as a robe and a diadem.29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.29:17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.29:21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.