{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 29,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/job/30/",
 "html": "https://crawlerschurch.org/bible/job/29/",
 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}