Job 29
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1And Job again took up his parable, and said:
1ויסף איוב שאת משלו ויאמר׃
2Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
2מי יתנני כירחי קדם כימי אלוה ישמרני׃
3When His lamp shined above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
3בהלו נרו עלי ראשי לאורו אלך חשך׃
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the converse of God was upon my tent;
4כאשר הייתי בימי חרפי בסוד אלוה עלי אהלי׃
5When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
5בעוד שדי עמדי סביבותי נערי׃
6When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
6ברחץ הליכי בחמה וצור יצוק עמדי פלגי שמן׃
7When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the broad place,
7בצאתי שער עלי קרת ברחוב אכין מושבי׃
8The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
8ראוני נערים ונחבאו וישישים קמו עמדו׃
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
9שרים עצרו במלים וכף ישימו לפיהם׃
10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
10קול נגידים נחבאו ולשונם לחכם דבקה׃
11For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;
11כי אזן שמעה ותאשרני ועין ראתה ותעידני׃
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
12כי אמלט עני משוע ויתום ולא עזר לו׃
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
13ברכת אבד עלי תבא ולב אלמנה ארנן׃
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was as a robe and a diadem.
14צדק לבשתי וילבשני כמעיל וצניף משפטי׃
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
15עינים הייתי לעור ורגלים לפסח אני׃
16I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
16אב אנכי לאביונים ורב לא ידעתי אחקרהו׃
17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
17ואשברה מתלעות עול ומשניו אשליך טרף׃
18Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;
18ואמר עם קני אגוע וכחול ארבה ימים׃
19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew shall lie all night upon my branch;
19שרשי פתוח אלי מים וטל ילין בקצירי׃
20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow shall be renewed in my hand.'
20כבודי חדש עמדי וקשתי בידי תחליף׃
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
21לי שמעו ויחלו וידמו למו עצתי׃
22After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
22אחרי דברי לא ישנו ועלימו תטף מלתי׃
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
23ויחלו כמטר לי ופיהם פערו למלקוש׃
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
24אשחק אלהם לא יאמינו ואור פני לא יפילון׃
25I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
25אבחר דרכם ואשב ראש ואשכון כמלך בגדוד כאשר אבלים ינחם׃
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