Job 29
1 And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
And Job again took up his measure, and said,
2 Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;
3 When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go 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 prime, when, the intimacy of GOD, was over my tent;
5 While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
While yet the Almighty was with me, round about me, were my young men;
6 When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
When my steps were bathed in milk, and, the rock, poured out beside me, rivulets 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 unto the city, in the open place, made ready my seat,
8 They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
Young men saw me, and hid themselves, and, the aged, arose—they stood;
9 Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
Rulers, restrained speech, and, a hand, laid they on their mouth;
10 [the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
The voice of nobles, was hushed, and their tongue to their palate, did cleave;
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, then it pronounced me happy, When, the eye, saw, then it bare me witness;
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 used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that 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 blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy;
14 Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice;
15 Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I!
16 [was] a father I to the needy [people] and a case at law of [the one whom] not I knew I investigated it.
A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;
17 And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
And I shivered the fangs of the perverse, —and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.
18 And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
19 Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs;
20 Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
Mine honour, shall be young again with me, and, my bow, in my hand, be renewed.
21 To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
To me, men hearkened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel;
22 After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
After I had spoken, they spake not again, and, upon them, used my speech to drop;
23 And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
And they waited, as for rain, for me, and, their mouths, they opened wide for the spring-rain;
24 I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
I laughed at them—they lost confidence, and, the light of my countenance, they suffered not to fail;
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 abode, as king, in an army, as one who, to mourners, giveth comfort.
