| Chapter 29 |
1 | Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
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2 | Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
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3 | When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
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4 | As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
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5 | When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
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6 | When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
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7 | When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
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8 | The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
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9 | The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
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10 | The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
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11 | The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
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12 | Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
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13 | The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
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14 | I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
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15 | I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
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16 | I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
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17 | I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
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18 | And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
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19 | My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
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20 | My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
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21 | They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
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22 | To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
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23 | They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
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24 | If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
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25 | If 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.
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