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Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2 ೨ “ಅಯ್ಯೋ ನಾನು ಹಿಂದಿನ ತಿಂಗಳುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದಂತೆ ಈಗಲೂ ಇದ್ದರೆ ಎಷ್ಟೋ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಗಿತ್ತು! ಆ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ದೇವರು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಕಾಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದನಲ್ಲಾ!
Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;
When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;
When the Almighty [was] yet with me, [when] my children [were] about me;
6 ೬ ಹಾಲು ತುಪ್ಪದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಪಾದಗಳನ್ನು ತೊಳೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದೆ, ಬಂಡೆಯು ನನಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರವಾಹವಾಗಿ ಸುರಿಸುತ್ತಿತ್ತು.
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street!
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.
The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth.
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me:
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 ೧೪ ನಾನು ಧರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಧರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡೆನು, ಧರ್ಮವು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಧರಿಸಿತು. ನನ್ನ ನ್ಯಾಯವೇ ನನಗೆ ನಿಲುವಂಗಿಯೂ, ಕಿರೀಟವೂ ಆಗಿತ್ತು.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 ೧೮ ಆಗ ನಾನು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೆಂದರೆ, ‘ನನ್ನ ಗೂಡಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ನಾನು ಸಾಯುವೆನು, ನನ್ನ ದಿನಗಳು ಮರಳಿನಂತೆ ಅಸಂಖ್ಯವಾಗಿರುವವು.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
19 ೧೯ ನನ್ನ ಬೇರುಗಳು ನೀರಿನವರೆಗೂ ವ್ಯಾಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವವು, ರಾತ್ರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇಬ್ಬನಿಯು ನನ್ನ ರೆಂಬೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿದ್ದಿರುವುದು.
My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
My glory [was] fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Unto me [men] gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 ೨೫ ನಾನು ಅವರಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕ ಮಾರ್ಗವನ್ನು ಆರಿಸಿಕೊಟ್ಟು, ತನ್ನ ಸೈನ್ಯಗಳ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಳಿತಿರುವ ರಾಜನಂತೆಯೂ, ದುಃಖಿತರನ್ನು ಸಂತೈಸುವ ಮುಖಂಡನಾಗಿ ಆಸೀನನಾಗಿದ್ದೆನು.”
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
