Job 29:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If I laughed on them That is, carried myself familiarly and pleasantly with them; they believed it not It was so acceptable to them to see me well pleased with them, and cheerful among them, that they could scarcely believe their eyes and ears which testified that it was so. And the light of my countenance they cast not down My familiarity with them did not produce presumption in them to say or do any thing that might grieve me, or make my countenance to fall. They were very cautious not to abuse my smiles, nor to give me any occasion to change my countenance or carriage toward them.