Job 29 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Job will add to lift up his parable, and say, And Job again took up his discourse, and said: Job continued his discourse:
2 Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me? “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
3 In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness; when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
4 As I was in the days of my ripeness, in the intercourse of God upon my tent; as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent, Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
5 In the Almighty being yet with me, my youths round about me; when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me, when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
6 In washing my goings with butter, and the rock will pour out with me streams of oil; when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
7 In my going forth to the gate upon the city, in the street I shall prepare my seat. When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square, “When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square,
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the old men rose up and stood. the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;
9 Chiefs held back in words, and they will put the hand to the mouth. the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth; the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;
10 The voice the leaders hid, and their tongue was joined to their palate. the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
11 If the ear heard, and it will pronounce me happy; and the eye saw, and it will testify to me: When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved, Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
12 For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him. because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
13 The praise of him perishing will come upon me, and I shall cause the heart of the widow to rejoice. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.
14 I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
15 Eyes was I to the blind one, and feet to the lame was I. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.
17 And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth. I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.
18 And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand. Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
19 My root opened to the waters, and the dew will lodge upon my foliage. my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches, My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
20 My glory new with me, and my bow will be changed in my hand. my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’ My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in my hand.’
21 To me they heard, and they waited, and they will be silent for them at my counsel. “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel. “People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel.
22 After my words they will not repeat, and my speech will drop upon them. After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them. After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears.
23 And they waited for me as the rain, and they opened wide their mouth for the latter rain. They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain. They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.
24 I shall laugh at them, they will not believe; and the light of my face they will not cast down. I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down. When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it; the light of my face was precious to them.
25 I shall choose their way, and I shall sit the head, and I shall dwell as king in the troop, as he shall comfort those mourning. I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
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