Job 29:21-25

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 ^(A)dropped upon them.
²³ They waited for me as for the rain,
    and they ^(B)opened their mouths as for the ^(C)spring rain.
²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
    and ^(D)the light of my ^(E)face they did not cast down.
²⁵ I chose their way and sat as chief,
    and I lived like ^(F)a king among his troops,
    like one who comforts mourners.