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

Job 29:1

Job 29:1And Job continued and said in his parable,

Job 29:2

Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, wherein God preserved me!

Job 29:3

Job 29:3As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

Job 29:4

Job 29:4 As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

Job 29:5

Job 29:5When I was very fruitful, and my children were about me;

Job 29:6

Job 29:6when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.

Job 29:7

Job 29:7When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

Job 29:8

Job 29:8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and all the old men stood up.

Job 29:9

Job 29:9And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

Job 29:10

Job 29:10And they that heard me blessed me, and their tongue clave to their throat.

Job 29:11

Job 29:11For the ear heard, and blessed me; and the eye saw me, and turned aside.

Job 29:12

Job 29:12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

Job 29:13Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

Job 29:14

Job 29:14Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

Job 29:15

Job 29:15I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

Job 29:16

Job 29:16I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

Job 29:17

Job 29:17And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

Job 29:18

Job 29:18And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

Job 29:19

Job 29:19 My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

Job 29:20

Job 29:20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow prospered in his hand.

Job 29:21

Job 29:21Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

Job 29:22

Job 29:22At my word they spoke not again, and they were very glad whenever I spoke to them.

Job 29:23

Job 29:23As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.

Job 29:24

Job 29:24Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

Job 29:25

Job 29:25I 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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