Job 29:21-22 and 25

"'Men listened to me and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.'"

"'After my words they did not speak again, and my speech settled on them as dew.'"

"'I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; so I dwelt as a king in the army, as one who comforts mourners.'"

(Job is describing what it was like before this whole situation.)