Job 29
1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
And he repeated Job to take up discourse his and he said.
2 O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Who? will he give me like months of long ago like [the] days [when] God he watched over me.
3 When his lamp shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
When made shine he lamp his over head my to light his I walked darkness.
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;
Just as I was in [the] days of prime my in [the] intimacy of God on tent my.
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
While still [the] Almighty [was] with me [were] around me lads my.
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
When bathed steps my in curd and a rock it poured out beside me streams of oil.
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
When went out I [the] gate on [the] town in the public square I prepared seat my.
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
They saw me young men and they hid themselves and old [men] they rose they stood.
9 The princes stopped talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Chiefs they restrained words and a hand they put to mouth their.
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
[the] voice of Nobles they were hidden and tongue their to palate their it stuck.
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
For an ear it heard and it called blessed me and an eye it saw and it bore witness to me.
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
That I rescued [the] afflicted [who] cried for help and [the] fatherless and [the one whom] not a helper [belonged] to him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
[the] blessing of [one] about to perish On me it came and [the] heart of a widow I made sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Righteousness I put on and it clothed me [was] like a robe and a turban justice my.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Eyes I was to the blind and [was] feet to the lame I.
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
[was] a father I to the needy [people] and a case at law of [the one whom] not I knew I investigated it.
17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
And I broke! [the] jaws of [the] unrighteous and from teeth his I threw [the] prey.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
And I said with nest my I will expire and like sand I will increase days.
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Root my [is] opened to water and dew it will remain overnight on branch[es] my.
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Honor my [is] new with me and bow my in hand my it will show newness.
21 To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
To me people listened and they waited and they may be silent for counsel my.
22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech fell upon them.
After word my not they repeated and on them it dropped speech my.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
And they waited like the rain for me and mouth their they opened wide for spring rain.
24 If I mocked at them, they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
I laughed to them not they believed and [the] light of face my not they made fall!
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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.
