Verse 24
Job 29:24
GOD'S WORD Translation
24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence.
They didn’t reject the light of my face.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֶשְׂחַ֣ק אֲ֭לֵ/הֶם לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ינוּ וְ/א֥וֹר פָּ֝נַ֗/י לֹ֣א יַפִּילֽוּ/ן
English Translation
I will laugh at them; they will not believe, and the light of my face will not fall upon them.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 29 Context
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Job again took up his parable, and said,
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“Oh that I were as in the months of old,
as in the days when God (Elohim) watched over me;
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when his lamp shone on my head,
and by his light I walked through darkness,
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as I was in the ripeness of my days,
when the friendship of God (Elohim) was in my tent,
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when the Almighty was yet with me,
and my children were around me,
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when my steps were washed with butter,
and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
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when I went out to the city gate,
when I prepared my seat in the street.
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The young men saw me and hid themselves.
The aged rose up and stood.
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The princes refrained from talking,
and laid their hand on their mouth.
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The voice of the nobles was hushed,
and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
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For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
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Because I delivered the poor who cried,
and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
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the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for j...
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.
My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
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I was eyes to the blind,
and feet to the lame.
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I was a father to the needy.
The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
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I broke the jaws of the unrighteous,
and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house,
I shall count my days as the sand.
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My root is spread out to the waters.
The dew lies all night on my branch.
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My glory is fresh in me.
My bow is renewed in my hand.’
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“Men listened to me, waited,
and kept silence for my counsel.
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After my words they didn’t speak again.
My speech fell on them.
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They waited for me as for the rain.
Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
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I smiled on them when they had no confidence.
They didn’t reject the light of my face.
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I chose out their way, and sat as chief.
I lived as a king in the army,
as one who comforts the mour...
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