Job 29

1Job again took up his parable, and said,Cross-references: Num 23:7 · Job 13:12 · Job 27:1

2“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;Cross-references: Job 1:1 · Job 1:10 · Job 7:3 · Ps 37:28 · Jer 31:28 · Jude 1:1

3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,Cross-references: Job 11:17 · Job 18:6 · Job 21:17 · Job 22:28 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 18:28 · +11 more

4as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,Cross-references: Job 1:10 · Job 15:8 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 27:5 · Ps 91:1 · Prov 3:32 · +1 more

5when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,Cross-references: Deut 33:27 · Josh 1:9 · Judg 6:12 · Job 1:2 · Job 23:3 · Job 23:8 · +11 more

6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,Cross-references: Gen 49:11 · Deut 32:13 · Deut 33:24 · Job 20:17 · Ps 81:16

7when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.Cross-references: Deut 16:18 · Deut 21:19 · Ruth 4:1 · Ruth 4:11 · Job 31:21 · Zech 8:16

8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.Cross-references: Lev 19:32 · Prov 16:31 · Prov 20:8 · Rom 13:3 · Rom 13:7 · Titus 3:1 · +2 more

9The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.Cross-references: Judg 18:19 · Job 4:2 · Job 7:11 · Job 21:5 · Job 40:4 · Prov 10:19 · +2 more

10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.Cross-references: Ps 137:6 · Ezek 3:26

11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,Cross-references: Job 31:20 · Prov 29:2 · Luke 4:22 · Luke 11:27

12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,Cross-references: Ex 22:22 · Deut 10:18 · Neh 5:2 · Job 22:5 · Job 24:4 · Job 31:17 · +8 more

13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.Cross-references: Deut 16:11 · Deut 24:13 · Deut 26:5 · Neh 8:10 · Job 22:9 · Job 31:19 · +8 more

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.Cross-references: Deut 24:13 · Job 27:6 · Ps 132:9 · Isa 28:5 · Isa 59:17 · Isa 61:10 · +6 more

15I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.Cross-references: Num 10:31 · Matt 11:5 · 1Cor 12:12

16I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.Cross-references: Ex 18:26 · Deut 13:14 · Deut 17:8 · 1Ki 3:16 · Esth 2:7 · Job 24:4 · +6 more

17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:35 · Ps 3:7 · Ps 58:8 · Ps 124:3 · Ps 124:6 · Prov 30:14

18Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.Cross-references: Gen 32:12 · Gen 41:49 · Job 5:26 · Job 42:16 · Ps 30:6 · Ps 91:16 · +4 more

19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.Cross-references: Job 18:16 · Ps 1:3 · Jer 17:8 · Hos 14:5

20My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’Cross-references: Gen 45:13 · Gen 49:24 · Job 19:9 · Job 29:14 · Ps 3:3 · Ps 18:34 · +3 more

21“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.Cross-references: Job 29:9 · Job 32:11

22After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · Job 32:15 · Job 33:31 · Song 4:11 · Isa 52:15 · Ezek 20:46 · +3 more

23They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.Cross-references: Ps 72:6 · Hos 6:3 · Zech 10:1

24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.Cross-references: Gen 45:26 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 89:15 · Ps 126:1 · Luke 24:41

25I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.Cross-references: Gen 14:14 · Gen 41:40 · Deut 33:5 · Judg 11:8 · 2Sam 5:2 · 1Chr 13:1 · +8 more