29:3. When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness? 29:4. As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? 29:5. When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me? 29:6. When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil? 29:7. When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? 29:8. The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood. 29:9. The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth. 29:10. The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat. 29:11. The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: 29:12. Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. 29:13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. 29:14. I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem. 29:15. I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. 29:16. I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. 29:17. I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey. 29:18. And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days. 29:19. My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest. 29:20. My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired. 29:21. They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel. 29:22. To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them. 29:23. They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower. 29:24. If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth. 29:25. If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned. Job Chapter 30 Job shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity. 30:1. But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: But now the younger in time... That is, younger than I am, and as it were obscure, when I was conspicuous and in magnificence; they now look down on me. 30:2. The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself. 30:3. Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. 30:4. And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food. 30:5. Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry. 30:6. They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.