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