Job 29:7-16

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁷ ¶ When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

⁸ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand.

⁹ The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth;

¹⁰ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹ When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me:

¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.