Job 29 (NET)

Job 29:1¹Then Job continued his speech:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 27:1Job 13:12Num 23:7

Job 29:2²“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 31:28Job 1:1-5Job 1:10Job 7:3Jude 1:1Ps 37:28

Job 29:3³when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 18:28John 8:12Eph 5:8Job 18:6John 12:46Job 11:17Job 22:28Prov 24:20Ps 84:11Eph 5:14

Job 29:4⁴just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 25:14Prov 3:32Job 1:10Job 15:8Ps 27:5Ps 91:1Col 3:3

Job 29:5⁵when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 128:3Ps 127:3-5Deut 33:27-29Josh 1:9Ps 30:7Song 2:4Song 3:1-2Jer 14:8Job 1:2-5Job 23:3

Job 29:6⁶when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 81:16Job 20:17Deut 32:13-14Deut 33:24Gen 49:11

Job 29:7⁷When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:18Ruth 4:1-2Zech 8:16Ruth 4:11Deut 21:19Job 31:21

Job 29:8⁸the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 19:321 Pet 5:5Prov 16:31Rom 13:7Titus 3:11 Pet 2:17Prov 20:8Rom 13:3-4

Job 29:9⁹the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 21:5Job 40:4Prov 10:19Jas 1:19Prov 30:32Job 4:2Job 7:11Judg 18:19

Job 29:10¹⁰the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 137:6Ezek 3:26

Job 29:11¹¹“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:22Job 31:20Prov 29:2Luke 11:27

Job 29:12¹²for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 72:12Prov 21:13Exod 22:22-24Jas 1:27Deut 10:18Prov 24:11-12Ps 68:5Ps 82:2-4Jer 22:16Job 22:5-9

Job 29:13¹³the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:16-18Isa 27:13Job 22:9Job 31:19-20Phlm 1:72 Cor 9:12-14Acts 9:39-41Deut 16:11Deut 24:13Deut 26:5

Job 29:14¹⁴I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:10Isa 59:17Ps 132:9Eph 6:14Job 27:6Rev 19:81 Thess 5:82 Cor 6:7Isa 62:3Deut 24:13

Job 29:15¹⁵I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 10:31Matt 11:51 Cor 12:12-31

Job 29:16¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 29:7Ps 68:5Esth 2:7Job 24:4Job 31:18Prov 25:21 Kgs 3:16-28Deut 13:14Deut 17:8-10Eph 5:1

Job 29:17¹⁷I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 3:7Prov 30:141 Sam 17:35Ps 124:6Ps 58:8Ps 124:3

Job 29:18¹⁸“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 30:6-7Gen 32:12Jer 49:16Job 42:16-17Job 5:26Obad 1:4Ps 91:16Gen 41:49Hab 2:9Jer 22:23

Job 29:19¹⁹My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 17:8Ps 1:3Hos 14:5-7Job 18:16

Job 29:20²⁰My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 49:24Isa 40:312 Cor 4:16Gen 45:13Ps 103:5Ps 18:34Ps 3:3Job 19:9Job 29:14

Job 29:21²¹“People listened to me and waited silently; they kept silent for my advice.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 29:9-10Job 32:11-12

Job 29:22²²After I had spoken, they did not respond; my words fell on them drop by drop.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:2Ezek 20:46Isa 52:15Matt 22:46Song 4:11Amos 7:16Job 32:15-16Job 33:31-33Mic 2:6

Job 29:23²³They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 6:3Ps 72:6Zech 10:1

Job 29:24²⁴If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 126:1Ps 4:6Ps 89:15Gen 45:26Luke 24:41

Job 29:25²⁵I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 1:3-41 Thess 3:2-3Gen 14:14-17Gen 41:40Isa 35:3-4Isa 61:1-3Judg 11:81 Chr 13:1-42 Cor 7:5-72 Sam 5:2