The Book of Job

Chapter-29

Job 29:1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:

 

Job 29:2 Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?

 

Job 29:3 At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.

 

Job 29:4 I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.

 

Job 29:5 At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.

 

Job 29:6 Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.

 

Job 29:7 When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.

 

Job 29:8 The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.

 

Job 29:9 The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.

 

Job 29:10 The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.

 

Job 29:11 The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.

 

Job 29:12 This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.

 

Job 29:13 The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.

 

Job 29:14 I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.

 

Job 29:15 I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.

 

Job 29:16 I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.

 

Job 29:17 I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.

 

Job 29:18 And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.

 

Job 29:19 My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.

 

Job 29:20 My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”

 

Job 29:21 Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.

 

Job 29:22 To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.

 

Job 29:23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.

 

Job 29:24 If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.

 

Job 29:25 If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.