Job 29, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -And Job continued his discourse:
2 -“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
3 -when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
4 -when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
5 -when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
6 -when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
7 -When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
8 -the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
9 -The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
10 -The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
11 -For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
12 -because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
13 -The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
14 -I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
15 -I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
16 -I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
17 -I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 -So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
19 -My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
20 -My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
21 -Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.
22 -After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
23 -They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
24 -If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
25 -I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
(Berean Standard Bible)
