Job 29
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1And Job continued his discourse:
1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
3when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
4when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
6when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
7When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
8the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
9The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
10The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
11For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
15I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
20My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
21Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.
21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
22After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
23They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
24If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
25I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.
25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
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