The Authority of Job's Counsel

Job 29:21-25

"People would listen to me; they waited and were silent when I gave advice.

After I spoke, they didn't talk back; my words were like drops [of dew] on them.

They waited for me as if for rain, as if for spring rain, with their mouths open wide.

When I joked with them, they couldn't believe it; and they never darkened the light on my face.

I chose their way [for them], sitting as chief; I lived like a king in the army, like one who comforts mourners.