Job 29

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	MODERN HEBREW BIBLE
1 Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:	1 ויסף איוב שאת משלו ויאמר
2 Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?	2 מי יתנני כירחי קדם כימי אלוה ישמרני
3 At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.	3 בהלו נרו עלי ראשי לאורו אלך חשך
4 I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.	4 כאשר הייתי בימי חרפי בסוד אלוה עלי אהלי
5 At that time, the Almighty was with me and my children surrounded me.	5 בעוד שדי עמדי סביבותי נערי
6 Then, I washed my feet with butter, and a boulder poured out rivers of oil for me.	6 ברחץ הליכי בחמה וצור יצוק עמדי פלגי שמן
7 When I went to the gate of the city, or to the main street, they prepared a chair for me.	7 בצאתי שער עלי קרת ברחוב אכין מושבי
8 The youths saw me and hid themselves, and the elders, rising up, remained standing.	8 ראוני נערים ונחבאו וישישים קמו עמדו
9 The leaders stopped talking, and they placed a finder over their mouth.	9 שרים עצרו במלים וכף ישימו לפיהם
10 The commanders subdued their voice, and their tongue adhered to their throat.	10 קול נגידים נחבאו ולשונם לחכם דבקה
11 The ear that heard me, blessed me, and the eye that saw me, gave testimony for me.	11 כי אזן שמעה ותאשרני ועין ראתה ותעידני
12 This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.	12 כי אמלט עני משוע ויתום ולא עזר לו
13 The blessing of him who would have been destroyed came upon me, and I consoled the heart of the widow.	13 ברכת אבד עלי תבא ולב אלמנה ארנן
14 I put on justice, and I clothed myself with my judgment, like a robe and a diadem.	14 צדק לבשתי וילבשני כמעיל וצניף משפטי
15 I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.	15 עינים הייתי לעור ורגלים לפסח אני
16 I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.	16 אב אנכי לאביונים ורב לא ידעתי אחקרהו
17 I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.	17 ואשברה מתלעות עול ומשניו אשליך טרף
18 And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.	18 ואמר עם קני אגוע וכחול ארבה ימים
19 My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.	19 שרשי פתוח אלי מים וטל ילין בקצירי
20 My glory will always be restored, and my bow will be restored to my hand.”	20 כבודי חדש עמדי וקשתי בידי תחליף
21 Those who heard me, expected vindication, and they listened closely in silence to my counsel.	21 לי שמעו ויחלו וידמו למו עצתי
22 To my words, they dared to add nothing, and my eloquence poured over them.	22 אחרי דברי לא ישנו ועלימו תטף מלתי
23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.	23 ויחלו כמטר לי ופיהם פערו למלקוש
24 If I had ever laughed at them, they would not have believed it, and the light of my face was not cast down towards the ground.	24 אשחק אלהם לא יאמינו ואור פני לא יפילון
25 If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.	25 אבחר דרכם ואשב ראש ואשכון כמלך בגדוד כאשר אבלים ינחם