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Job 29 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:1 - And Job continued and said in his parable,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:2 - Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4 - As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:5 - When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:7 - When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 - The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10 - And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:11 - For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:12 - For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:14 - Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:15 - I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:16 - I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17 - And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:18 - And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:20 - My glory was fresh in me, and my bow prospered in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:21 - Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:22 - At my word they spoke not again, and they were very glad whenever I spoke to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:25 - I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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