Job 29
1 and to add: again Job to lift: loud proverb his and to say
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2 who? to give: if only! me like/as month front: old like/as day god to keep: guard me
Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;
3 in/on/with to shine he lamp his upon head my to/for light his to go: walk darkness
When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
4 like/as as which to be in/on/with day autumn my in/on/with counsel god upon tent my
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;
5 in/on/with still Almighty with me me around me youth my
When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;
6 in/on/with to wash: wash step my in/on/with heat and rock to pour with me me stream oil
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 in/on/with to come out: come I gate upon town in/on/with street/plaza to establish: prepare seat my
When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
8 to see: see me youth and to hide and aged to arise: rise to stand: stand
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
9 ruler to restrain in/on/with speech and palm to set: put to/for lip their
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
10 voice leader to hide and tongue their to/for palate their to cleave
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 for ear to hear: hear and to bless me and eye to see: see and to testify me
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
12 for to escape afflicted to cry and orphan and not to help to/for him
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
13 blessing to perish upon me to come (in): come and heart widow to sing
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 righteousness to clothe and to clothe me like/as robe and turban justice my
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
15 eye to be to/for blind and foot to/for lame I
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
16 father I to/for needy and strife not to know to search him
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
17 and to break [emph?] jaw unjust and from tooth his to throw prey
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 and to say with nest my to die and like/as sand to multiply day
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
19 root my to open to(wards) water and dew to lodge in/on/with foliage my
My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20 glory my new with me me and bow my in/on/with hand my to pass
My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 to/for me to hear: hear and to wait: wait and to silence: silent upon counsel my
Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 after word: speaking my not to repeat and upon them to drip/prophesy speech my
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23 and to wait: wait like/as rain to/for me and lip their to open to/for spring rain
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
24 to laugh to(wards) them not be faithful and light face my not to fall: fall [emph?]
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 to choose way: conduct their and to dwell head: leader and to dwell like/as king in/on/with band like/as as which mourning to be sorry: comfort
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
