Job 29:24
Verse 24 of 25. The 29th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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Job 29:24 in the World English Bible
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.Read Job 29:24 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 29:24
And those who have such an interest as Job had in the esteem of others whose ipse dixit—bare assertion goes so far, as they have a great opportunity of doing good, so they must take great care lest they do hurt, for a bad word out of their mouths is very infectious. [2.] Much more happy were those thought on whom he smiled, and they thought themselves so, v. 24.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.