English Standard Version

Job 29:6-12 English Standard Version (ESV)

6. when my steps were washed with butter,and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

7. When I went out to the gate of the city,when I prepared my seat in the square,

8. the young men saw me and withdrew,and the aged rose and stood;

9. the princes refrained from talkingand laid their hand on their mouth;

10. the voice of the nobles was hushed,and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

11. When the ear heard, it called me blessed,and when the eye saw, it approved,

12. because I delivered the poor who cried for help,and the fatherless who had none to help him.