Job 29: Job Remembers His Former Days

Job looks back with longing on the time when God protected him and his children were with him. He recalls the honor he received at the city gate, his care for the poor, orphans, widows, the blind and the lame, and how people hung on his counsel as he led them like a chief.

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How does Job describe the way people received his counsel in 29:21-23?

They waited eagerly for his words, like dry land waiting for rainThey argued with him and often went off to seek other adviceThey listened politely but seldom acted on what he told themThey wrote his sayings down and sent them to faraway kings