“I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 29 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.