Job 29:12-14

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

¹³The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴I put on ^[a]righteousness, and it clothed me or clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a turban or a diadem or a crown!

Job 29:14 Blameless and upright as Job had been—and God had so pronounced him—his misunderstood afflictions had caused him to get dangerously off-center. Instead of keeping his mind stayed on God and justifying Him, he is giving his whole thought to justifying himself. Instead of humility there is only self-righteousness. In this chapter he uses pronouns referring to himself fifty times. But when he was able to see himself as God saw him, he loathed himself and repented “in dust and ashes” (Job 42:6).