Job Continues His Discourse
And Job continued to lift up his adiscourse and said,
2 “Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God akept me,
3 When aHis lamp shone over my head,
And bby His light I walked through darkness,
4 As I was in the prime of my days,
When the aintimate counsel with God was over my tent,
5 When the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were around me,
6 When my steps were bathed in abutter,
And the brock poured out for me streams of oil!
7 When I went out to athe gate of the city,
When I took my seat in the square,
8 The young men saw me and hid,
And the old men arose and stood.
9 The princes astopped talking
And bput their hands on their mouths;
10 The voice of the nobles was ahidden away,
And their btongue clung to their palate.
11 For athe ear heard, and it called me blessed,
And the eye saw, and it gave witness of me,
12 Because I provided escape for athe afflicted who cried for help,
And the borphan who had no helper.
13 The blessing of the one aready to perish came upon me,
And I made the bwidow’s heart sing for joy.
14 I aclothed myself with righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.
15 I was aeyes to the blind
And feet to the lame.
16 I was a father to athe needy,
And I searched out the case which I did not know.
17 I abroke the fangs of the unjust
And snatched the prey from his teeth.
18 Then I said, ‘I will breathe my last in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 My aroot is spread out to the waters,
And bdew lies all night on my branch.
20 My glory is ever new with me,
And my abow is renewed in my hand.’
21 “To me athey listened and waited,
And kept silent for my counsel.
22 After my words they did not aspeak again,
And bmy speech dropped on them.
23 They waited for me as for the rain,
And opened their mouth as for the late rain.
24 I laughed with them as they could not believe it,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.
25 I chose a way for them and sat as their ahead,
And dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who bcomforted the mourners.