Job 29:1-22 ▼

1 And Job adds to lift up his allegory and says:

2 “Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?

3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, || By His light I walk [through] darkness.

4 As I have been in days of my maturity, || And the counsel of God on my tent.

5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Around me—my young ones,

6 When washing my goings with butter, || And the firm rock [is] with me—streams of oil.

7 When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.

8 Youths have seen me, and they have been hidden, || And the aged have risen—they stood up.

9 Princes have kept in words, || And they place a hand on their mouth.

10 The voice of leaders has been hidden, || And their tongue has cleaved to the palate.

11 For the ear heard, and declares me blessed, || And the eye has seen, and testifies [to] me.

12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper.

13 The blessing of the perishing comes on me, || And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.

14 I have put on righteousness, and it clothes me, || My justice as a robe and a crown.

15 I have been eyes to the blind, || And I [am] feet to the lame.

16 I [am] a father to the needy, || And the cause I have not known I search out.

17 And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, || And from his teeth I cast away prey.

18 And I say, I expire with my nest, || And I multiply days as the sand.

19 My root is open to the waters, || And dew lodges on my branch.

20 My glory [is] fresh with me, || And my bow is renewed in my hand.

21 They have listened to me, || Indeed, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

22 After my word they do not change, || And my speech drops on them,