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Job 29

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 addidit quoque Iob adsumens parabolam suam et dixit

2 quis mihi tribuat ut sim iuxta menses pristinos secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me

3 quando splendebat lucerna eius super caput meum et ad lumen eius ambulabam in tenebris

4 sicut fui in diebus adulescentiae meae quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo

5 quando erat Omnipotens mecum et in circuitu meo pueri mei

6 quando lavabam pedes meos butyro et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei

7 quando procedebam ad portam civitatis et in platea parabant cathedram mihi

8 videbant me iuvenes et abscondebantur et senes adsurgentes stabant

9 principes cessabant loqui et digitum superponebant ori suo

10 vocem suam cohibebant duces et lingua eorum gutturi suo adherebat

11 auris audiens beatificabat me et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi

12 quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem et pupillum cui non esset adiutor

13 benedictio perituri super me veniebat et cor viduae consolatus sum

14 iustitia indutus sum et vestivit me sicut vestimento et diademate iudicio meo

15 oculus fui caeco et pes claudo

16 pater eram pauperum et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam

17 conterebam molas iniqui et de dentibus illius auferebam praedam

18 dicebamque in nidulo meo moriar et sicut palma multiplicabo dies

19 radix mea aperta est secus aquas et ros morabitur in messione mea

20 gloria mea semper innovabitur et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur

21 qui me audiebant expectabant sententiam et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum

22 verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum

23 expectabant me sicut pluviam et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum

24 si quando ridebam ad eos non credebant et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram

25 si voluissem ire ad eos sedebam primus cumque sederem quasi rex circumstante exercitu eram tamen maerentium consolator

English Standard Version ESV

1 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

3 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

4 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

5 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

9 the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;

10 the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

11 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,

12 because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

13 The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

16 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

18 Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

19 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

20 my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand. ’

21 “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.

22 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

23 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.

25 I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.