counsel.
Job29:22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Job30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.