NET Bible
"the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;"
— Job 29:9, NET Bible
when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;
the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;
the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,
for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;