29:1 Then Job continued his speech:
29:2 “O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,
29:3 when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
29:4 just as I was in my productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
29:5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;
29:6 when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
29:7 When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
29:8 the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;
29:9 the chief men restrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;
29:10 the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,
29:12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
29:13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
29:14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;
29:15 I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;
29:16 I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;