Job 29 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 [Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3 Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
4 sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5 quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
6 quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7 quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
7 when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
8 Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur: et senes assurgentes stabant.
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
9 Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
12 eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13 Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15 Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16 Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
16 I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
17 Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
18 Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
19 Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
20 Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
21 Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
21 “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
22 After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
23 Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
24 Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant: et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
25 Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus: cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]
25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 27:1; Numbers 23:7; Job 13:12
- 2 Job 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28; Job 1:1–5; Job 7:3; Psalm 37:28
- 3 Psalm 18:28; John 8:12; Job 18:6; Ephesians 5:8; John 12:46
- 4 Psalm 25:14; Proverbs 3:32; Job 15:8; Job 1:10; Psalm 27:5
- 5 Psalm 128:3; Psalm 127:3–5; Deuteronomy 33:27–29; Song of Songs 2:4; Joshua 1:9
- 6 Psalm 81:16; Job 20:17; Genesis 49:11; Deuteronomy 32:13–14; Deuteronomy 33:24
- 7 Ruth 4:1–2; Zechariah 8:16; Deuteronomy 16:18; Ruth 4:11; Job 31:21
- 8 Leviticus 19:32; Romans 13:7; 1 Peter 5:5; Proverbs 16:31; Titus 3:1
- 9 Job 21:5; Proverbs 10:19; Job 40:4; James 1:19; Proverbs 30:32
- 10 Psalm 137:6; Ezekiel 3:26
- 11 Luke 4:22; Proverbs 29:2; Job 31:20; Luke 11:27
- 12 Psalm 72:12; Proverbs 21:13; Exodus 22:22–24; James 1:27; Proverbs 24:11–12
- 13 2 Timothy 1:16–18; Philemon 7; Isaiah 27:13; Job 22:9; Job 31:19–20
- 14 Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 59:17; Psalm 132:9; Ephesians 6:14; Revelation 19:8
- 15 Numbers 10:31; Matthew 11:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12–31
- 16 Proverbs 29:7; Psalm 68:5; Esther 2:7; Proverbs 25:2; Job 24:4
- 17 Psalm 3:7; Proverbs 30:14; 1 Samuel 17:35; Psalm 124:6; Psalm 58:8
- 18 Psalm 30:6–7; Obadiah 4; Job 5:26; Jeremiah 49:16; Genesis 32:12
- 19 Jeremiah 17:8; Psalm 1:3; Hosea 14:5–7; Job 18:16
- 20 Genesis 49:24; Isaiah 40:31; 2 Corinthians 4:16; Psalm 18:34; Psalm 103:5
- 21 Job 32:11–12; Job 29:9–10
- 22 Deuteronomy 32:2; Song of Songs 4:11; Ezekiel 20:46; Matthew 22:46; Isaiah 52:15
- 23 Hosea 6:3; Psalm 72:6; Zechariah 10:1
- 24 Psalm 126:1; Psalm 4:6; Psalm 89:15; Luke 24:41; Genesis 45:26
- 25 2 Corinthians 1:3–4; Isaiah 35:3–4; Genesis 14:14–17; Isaiah 61:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 3:2–3
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