Job’s Righteousness and Esteem in the City Gate

Job 29:7-17

When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,

The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me:

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.