Job 29
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
1ויסף איוב שאת משלו ויאמר׃
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
2מי יתנני כירחי קדם כימי אלוה ישמרני׃
3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
3בהלו נרו עלי ראשי לאורו אלך חשך׃
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
4כאשר הייתי בימי חרפי בסוד אלוה עלי אהלי׃
5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
5בעוד שדי עמדי סביבותי נערי׃
6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
6ברחץ הליכי בחמה וצור יצוק עמדי פלגי שמן׃
7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
7בצאתי שער עלי קרת ברחוב אכין מושבי׃
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
8ראוני נערים ונחבאו וישישים קמו עמדו׃
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
9שרים עצרו במלים וכף ישימו לפיהם׃
10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
10קול נגידים נחבאו ולשונם לחכם דבקה׃
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
11כי אזן שמעה ותאשרני ועין ראתה ותעידני׃
12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
12כי אמלט עני משוע ויתום ולא עזר לו׃
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
13ברכת אבד עלי תבא ולב אלמנה ארנן׃
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
14צדק לבשתי וילבשני כמעיל וצניף משפטי׃
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
15עינים הייתי לעור ורגלים לפסח אני׃
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
16אב אנכי לאביונים ורב לא ידעתי אחקרהו׃
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
17ואשברה מתלעות עול ומשניו אשליך טרף׃
18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
18ואמר עם קני אגוע וכחול ארבה ימים׃
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
19שרשי פתוח אלי מים וטל ילין בקצירי׃
20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
20כבודי חדש עמדי וקשתי בידי תחליף׃
21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
21לי שמעו ויחלו וידמו למו עצתי׃
22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
22אחרי דברי לא ישנו ועלימו תטף מלתי׃
23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
23ויחלו כמטר לי ופיהם פערו למלקוש׃
24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
24אשחק אלהם לא יאמינו ואור פני לא יפילון׃
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.
25אבחר דרכם ואשב ראש ואשכון כמלך בגדוד כאשר אבלים ינחם׃
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