Job · Young's Literal Translation
Job 29 Young's Literal Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: —
1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
2 Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me?
2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
3 In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
4 As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.
4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
5 When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me — my young ones,
5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
6 When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.
6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
7 When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
7 when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
8 Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen — they stood up.
8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
9 Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.
10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth [to] me.
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
12 For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13 The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
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 Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
15 Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
16 A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
16 I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
17 And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
18 And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
18 Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
19 My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.
19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
20 My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.
20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
21 To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.
21 “Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
22 After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
22 After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
23 And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
24 I laugh unto them — they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.
24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
25 I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
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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