Job 29:18-30:1

English Standard Version

²¹ “Men listened to me and waited
    and kept silence for my counsel.
²² After I spoke they did not speak again,
    and my word ^(I)dropped upon them.
²³ They waited for me as for the rain,
    and they ^(J)opened their mouths as for the ^(K)spring rain.
²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
    and ^(L)the light of my ^(M)face they did not cast down.
²⁵ I chose their way and sat as chief,
    and I lived like ^(N)a king among his troops,
    like one who comforts mourners.

30 “But now they ^(O)laugh at me,
    men who are ^(P)younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to set with the dogs of my flock.