Job 29
1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
and to add: again Job to lift: loud proverb his and to say
2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
who? to give: if only! me like/as month front: old like/as day god to keep: guard me
3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
in/on/with to shine he lamp his upon head my to/for light his to go: walk darkness
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
like/as as which to be in/on/with day autumn my in/on/with counsel god upon tent my
5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
in/on/with still Almighty with me me around me youth my
6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
in/on/with to wash: wash step my in/on/with heat and rock to pour with me me stream oil
7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
in/on/with to come out: come I gate upon town in/on/with street/plaza to establish: prepare seat my
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
to see: see me youth and to hide and aged to arise: rise to stand: stand
9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
ruler to restrain in/on/with speech and palm to set: put to/for lip their
10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
voice leader to hide and tongue their to/for palate their to cleave
11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
for ear to hear: hear and to bless me and eye to see: see and to testify me
12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
for to escape afflicted to cry and orphan and not to help to/for him
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
blessing to perish upon me to come (in): come and heart widow to sing
14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
righteousness to clothe and to clothe me like/as robe and turban justice my
15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
eye to be to/for blind and foot to/for lame I
16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
father I to/for needy and strife not to know to search him
17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
and to break [emph?] jaw unjust and from tooth his to throw prey
18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
and to say with nest my to die and like/as sand to multiply day
19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
root my to open to(wards) water and dew to lodge in/on/with foliage my
20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
glory my new with me me and bow my in/on/with hand my to pass
21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
to/for me to hear: hear and to wait: wait and to silence: silent upon counsel my
22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
after word: speaking my not to repeat and upon them to drip/prophesy speech my
23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
and to wait: wait like/as rain to/for me and lip their to open to/for spring rain
24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
to laugh to(wards) them not be faithful and light face my not to fall: fall [emph?]
25 If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
to choose way: conduct their and to dwell head: leader and to dwell like/as king in/on/with band like/as as which mourning to be sorry: comfort
