Job 29
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition
1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
1ΕΤΙ δὲ προσθεὶς Ἰὼβ εἶπε τῷ προοιμίῳ·
2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
2τίς ἄν με θείη κατὰ μῆνα ἔμπροσθεν ἡμερῶν, ὧν με ὁ Θεὸς ἐφύλαξεν;
3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
3ὡς ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς μου, ὅτε τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην ἐν σκότει·
4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
4ὅτε ἤμην ἐπιβρίθων ὁδούς, ὅτε ὁ Θεὸς ἐπισκοπὴν ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ οἴκου μου·
5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
5ὅτε ἤμην ὑλώδης λίαν, κύκλῳ δέ μου οἱ παῖδες·
6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
6ὅτε ἐχέοντο αἱ ὁδοί μου βουτύρῳ, τὰ δὲ ὄρη μου ἐχέοντο γάλακτι·
7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
7ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθιος ἐν πόλει, ἐν δὲ πλατείαις ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος.
8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
8ἰδόντες με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν, πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντες ἔστησαν·
9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
9ἁδροὶ δὲ ἐπαύσαντο λαλοῦντες, δάκτυλον ἐπιθέντες ἐπὶ στόματι.
10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
10οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ἐμακάρισάν με, καὶ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν ἐκολλήθη·
11When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me:
11ὅτι οὖς ἤκουσε καὶ ἐμακάρισέ με, ὀφθαλμὸς δὲ ἰδών με ἐξέκλινε·
12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
12διέσωσα γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ χειρὸς δυνάστου καὶ ὀρφανῷ, ᾧ οὐκ ἦν βοηθός, ἐβοήθησα.
13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
13εὐλογία ἀπολλυμένου ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἔλθοι, στόμα δὲ χήρας με εὐλόγησε.
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
14δικαιοσύνην δὲ ἐνδεδύκειν, ἠμφιασάμην δὲ κρίμα ἴσα διπλοΐδι.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
15ὀφθαλμὸς ἤμην τυφλῶν, ποὺς δὲ χωλῶν.
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
16ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων, δίκην δὲ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα·
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
17συνέτριψα δὲ μύλας ἀδίκων, ἐκ μέσου τῶν ὀδόντων αὐτῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξήρπασα.
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
18εἶπα δέ· ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος, πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω·
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
19ἡ ρίζα διήνοικται ἐπὶ ὕδατος, καὶ δρόσος αὐλισθήσεται ἐν τῷ θερισμῷ μου·
20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
20ἡ δόξα μου κενὴ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ τὸ τόξον μου ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ πορεύεται.
21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
21ἐμοῦ ἀκούσαντες προσέσχον, ἐσιώπησαν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ βουλῇ·
22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
22ἐπὶ τῷ ἐμῷ ρήματι οὐ προσέθεντο, περιχαρεῖς δὲ ἐγίνοντο ὁπόταν αὐτοῖς ἐλάλουν·
23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
23ὥσπερ γῆ διψῶσα προσδεχομένη τὸν ὑετόν, οὕτως οὗτοι τὴν ἐμὴν λαλιάν.
24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
24ἐὰν γελάσω πρὸς αὐτούς, οὐ μὴ πιστεύσωσι, καὶ φῶς τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἀπέπιπτεν·
25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
25ἐξελεξάμην ὁδὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκάθισα ἄρχων καὶ κατεσκήνουν ὡσεὶ βασιλεὺς ἐν μονοζώνοις ὃν τρόπον παθεινοὺς παρακαλῶν.
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