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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:1 - And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:2 - Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4 - As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:5 - When yet the Mighty One is with me. Round about me -- my young ones,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:7 - When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 - Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10 - The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:11 - For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:12 - For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:14 - Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:15 - Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:16 - A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17 - And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:18 - And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:20 - My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:21 - To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:22 - After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:23 - And they wait as for rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide As for the latter rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:24 - I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:25 - 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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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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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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