Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
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Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
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Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.
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Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 29:8
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
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Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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Job 32:11
“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
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Job 38:40
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
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Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
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