Job 29:13-23

13 benedictio perituri super me veniebat et cor viduae consolatus sum

14 iustitia indutus sum et vestivit me sicut vestimento et diademate iudicio meo

15 oculus fui caeco et pes claudo

16 pater eram pauperum et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam

17 conterebam molas iniqui et de dentibus illius auferebam praedam

18 dicebamque in nidulo meo moriar et sicut palma multiplicabo dies

19 radix mea aperta est secus aquas et ros morabitur in messione mea

20 gloria mea semper innovabitur et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur

21 qui me audiebant expectabant sententiam et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum

22 verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum

23 expectabant me sicut pluviam et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum

Job 29:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 29

In this chapter Job gives an account of his former and wishes it was with him now as then; and which he describes with respect to his own person, and the favours he personally enjoyed, whether temporal or spiritual, Job 29:1-4; with respect to his family and domestic affairs, Job 29:5,6; with regard to the esteem he had from men of every age and station, Job 29:7-11; the reasons of which were the mercy and compassion he showed to the poor, the fatherless, and the widow, and the justice he administered in the execution of his office as a magistrate, Job 29:12-17; in which honour and prosperity he expected to have lived and died, Job 29:18-20; and which he further describes by the respect he had among men, and the power and authority he exercised over them, Job 29:21-25.