Job 29
1 And Job continued his discourse:
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
3 when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
7 When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
For an ear it heard and it called blessed me and an eye it saw and it bore witness to me.
12 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
That I rescued [the] afflicted [who] cried for help and [the] fatherless and [the one whom] not a helper [belonged] to him.
13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
[the] blessing of [one] about to perish On me it came and [the] heart of a widow I made sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
16 I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
[was] a father I to the needy [people] and a case at law of [the one whom] not I knew I investigated it.
17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
21 Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
23 They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
I chose way their so I may sit [as] chief so I may dwell like a king among the troop[s] just as mourners someone comforts.
