Job 29
1 And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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 months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3 When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4 Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle;
5 While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6 When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers 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 gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8 They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9 Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 [the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue stuck to the roof 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.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness 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.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help 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 on me: and I caused the widow’s heart to 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: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15 Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I 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 poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
20 Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped on them.
23 And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24 I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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 out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
