Job 29
1 And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,
2 Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!
3 When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,
4 Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:
5 While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
When the almightie was yet with me, and my children round about me.
6 When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
When I washed my pathes with butter, and when the rocke powred me out riuers of oyle:
7 When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.
8 They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
The yong men saw me, and hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp.
9 Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth.
10 [the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.
11 For an ear it heard and it called blessed me and an eye it saw and it bore witness to me.
And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.
12 That I rescued [the] afflicted [who] cried for help and [the] fatherless and [the one whom] not a helper [belonged] to him.
For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
13 [the] blessing of [one] about to perish On me it came and [the] heart of a widow I made sing for joy.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.
14 Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.
15 Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete 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 vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
17 And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
18 And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.
19 Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.
20 Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
My glory shall renue towarde me, and my bowe shall be restored in mine hand.
21 To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
Vnto me men gaue eare, and wayted, and helde their tongue at my counsell.
22 After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
After my wordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them.
23 And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
And they wayted for me, as for the raine, and they opened their mouth as for the latter rayne.
24 I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
If I laughed on them, they beleeued it not: neither did they cause the light of my countenance to fall.
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 appoynted out their way, and did sit as chiefe, and dwelt as a King in the army, and like him that comforteth the mourners.
