Job 29:21-25

21Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel: 22After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them; 23And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 24[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance. 25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.