Job 29:23-25

New Century Version

²³ They waited for me as they would for rain
    and drank in my words like spring rain.
²⁴ I smiled at them when they doubted,
    and my approval was important to them.
²⁵ I chose the way for them and was their leader.
    I lived like a king among his army,
    like a person who comforts sad people.