Job 29
1 And Job continued to take up his parable, and said,
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded 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 over my head, when by his light I could walk in 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 abundance, when the confidence 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, when my servants stood round about me;
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 When I bathed my steps in cream, and the rock poured out near me streamlets 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 gate close by the city, when in the open place I established my seat:
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 Young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged rose up, and remained standing;
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 Princes stopped in the midst of [their] words, and laid their hand on their mouth:
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The voice of nobles was arrested, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 For the ear that heard me called me happy; and the eye that saw me bore witness for 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, and the fatherless, yea, 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 the heart of the widow I caused 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 took righteousness as my garment, and it clothed me: as a robe and a mitre was justice unto me.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I.
Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
16 A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.
[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 cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 And I said then, “In the midst of my nest shall I depart hence, and like the sand shall I have many days.
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My root will stand open for the water, and the dew will lodge on my boughs.
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My glory will ever be new with me, and my bow will acquire fresh strength in my hand.”
Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
21 Unto me men listened, and waited, and watched in silence for my counsel
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my words they made no reply, and my speech dropped on them [like dew].
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 wide their mouth as for the latter rain.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 I smiled on those that had lost their confidence; and the light of my countenance they never cast down.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I chose their way for them, and I sat as chief, and dwelt as king in his army, as one that comforteth 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.
