Job 29
1 And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 “Who makes me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?
Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
4 As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God on my tent.
Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Around me—my young ones,
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me—streams of oil.
When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 Youths have seen me, and they have been hidden, And the aged have risen—they stood up.
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 Princes have kept in words, And they place a hand on their mouth.
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The voice of leaders has been hidden, And their tongue has cleaved to the palate.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 For the ear heard, and declares me blessed, And the eye has seen, and testifies [to] me.
For an ear it heard and it called blessed me and an eye it saw and it bore witness to me.
12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who has 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 blessing of the perishing comes on me, And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.
[the] blessing of [one] about to perish On me it came and [the] heart of a widow I made sing for joy.
14 I have put on righteousness, and it clothes me, My justice as a robe and a crown.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 I have been eyes to the blind, And I [am] feet to the lame.
Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
16 I [am] a father to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search 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 break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 And I say, I expire with my nest, And I multiply days as the sand.
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My root is open to the waters, And dew lodges on my branch.
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My glory [is] fresh with 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 They have listened to me, Indeed, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my word they do not change, And my speech drops on them,
After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
23 And they wait for me as [for] rain, And they have opened wide their mouth [As] for the spring rain.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 I laugh at them—they give no credence, And do not cause the light of my face to fall.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I choose their way, and sit [as] head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When he comforts 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.
