Job 29 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job's Past Was Glorious

Job 29:1

Job 29:1And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --

Job 29:2

Job 29:2Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?

Job 29:3

Job 29:3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.

Job 29:4

Job 29:4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

Job 29:5

Job 29:5When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me -- my young ones,

Job 29:6

Job 29:6When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.

Job 29:7

Job 29:7When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

Job 29:8

Job 29:8Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

Job 29:9

Job 29:9Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

Job 29:10

Job 29:10The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

Job 29:11

Job 29:11For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me.

Job 29:12

Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

Job 29:13

Job 29:13The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

Job 29:14

Job 29:14Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

Job 29:15

Job 29:15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.

Job 29:16

Job 29:16A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

Job 29:17

Job 29:17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Job 29:18

Job 29:18And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

Job 29:19

Job 29:19My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

Job 29:20

Job 29:20My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.

Job 29:21

Job 29:21To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.

Job 29:22

Job 29:22After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,

Job 29:23

Job 29:23And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.

Job 29:24

Job 29:24I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.

Job 29:25

Job 29:25I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 29 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job's Past Was Glorious

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Job Chapter 29 — Additional Translations:

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