{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/29","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:46:35.904Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":29,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":28,"nextChapter":30,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job continued his parable and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ..."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 29 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 29](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/29)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/29 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}