Job 29:23-25

The Voice

²³     Indeed, they waited for me as one waits for a good rain,
        and they opened their mouths as if to catch spring showers on their tongues.
²⁴     I smiled upon them when their confidence flagged,
        and they took comfort in my beaming face.^[a]
25     I led them in their way.
        I sat as their leader.
    I lived like a king among his troops.
        I was as a happy man spreading comfort among the mourners.