Job 29:23-25

New International Reader's Version

²³ They waited for me just as they would wait for rain showers.
    They drank my words just as they would drink the spring rain.
²⁴ When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it.
    The light of my face lifted their spirits.
²⁵ I chose the way they should go. I sat as their chief.
    I lived as a king lives among his troops.
    I was like someone who comforts those who are sad.