Job 29
1 And Job again took up his parable, and said:
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in 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 shined above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the converse of God was upon 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 yet with me, and my children were about me;
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the broad place,
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto 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 delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
That I rescued [the] afflicted [who] cried for help and [the] fatherless and [the one whom] not a helper [belonged] to him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to 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 itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I 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 the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
[was] a father I to the needy [people] and a case at law of [the one whom] not I knew I investigated it.
17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'
Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth 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.
