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| [1]And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: -- |
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| [2]Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God's preserving me? |
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| [3]In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness. |
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| [4]As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent. |
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| [5]When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me -- my young ones, |
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| [6]When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil. |
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| [7]When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat. |
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| [8]Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up. |
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| [9]Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth. |
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| [10]The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved. |
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| [11]For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth [to] me. |
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| [12]For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper. |
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| [13]The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing. |
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| [14]Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice. |
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| [15]Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I. |
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| [16]A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. |
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| [17]And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey. |
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| [18]And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.' |
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| [19]My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch. |
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| [20]My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed. |
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| [21]To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel. |
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| [22]After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop, |
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| [23]And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain. |
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| [24]I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall. |
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| [25]I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort. |
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