{"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/drb/job/29","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:05:27.593Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":29,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":28,"nextChapter":30,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me? "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil? "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 29 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 29](https://primebible.com/drb/job/29)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/29 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}