# Daily Bible Reading | Job 29

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# ***JOB 29***

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*Job’s Summary Defense*

\[1\] And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

\[2\] “Oh, that I were as in the months of old,

as in the days when God watched over me,

\[3\] when his lamp shone upon my head,

and by his light I walked through darkness,

\[4\] as I was in my prime,

when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

\[5\] when the Almighty was yet with me,

when my children were all around me,

\[6\] when my steps were washed with butter,

and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

\[7\] When I went out to the gate of the city,

when I prepared my seat in the square,

\[8\] the young men saw me and withdrew,

and the aged rose and stood;

\[9\] the princes refrained from talking

and laid their hand on their mouth;

\[10\] the voice of the nobles was hushed,

and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

\[11\] When the ear heard, it called me blessed,

and when the eye saw, it approved,

\[12\] because I delivered the poor who cried for help,

and the fatherless who had none to help him.

\[13\] The blessing of him who was about to perish 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 feet to the lame.

\[16\] I was a father to the needy,

and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

\[17\] I broke the fangs of the unrighteous

and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

\[18\] Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest,

and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

\[19\] my roots spread out to the waters,

with the dew all night on my branches,

\[20\] my glory fresh with me,

and my bow ever new in my hand.’

\[21\] “Men listened to me and waited

and kept silence for my counsel.

\[22\] After I spoke they did not speak again,

and my word dropped upon them.

\[23\] They waited for me as for the rain,

and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

\[24\] I smiled on them when they had no confidence,

and the light of my face they did not cast down.

\[25\] I chose their way and sat as chief,

and I lived like a king among his troops,

like one who comforts mourners. (ESV)