Job 29
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
World English Bible
1Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
1Job again took up his parable, and said,
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
2“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
4as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
5when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
7when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
9The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
9The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
16I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
18Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
20My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
20My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
21They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
21“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
22After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
23They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
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.
25I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
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