Job 29:23-25

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ They waited for me as for the rain;
    they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence;
    and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.^[a]
25 I chose their way, and sat as chief,
    and I lived like a king among his troops,
    like one who comforts mourners.