Verse 1
Job 29:1
English Revised Version
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And Job again took up his parable, and said,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣סֶף אִ֭יּוֹב שְׂאֵ֥ת מְשָׁל֗/וֹ וַ/יֹּאמַֽר
English Translation
And Job added to take up his parable and said.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 29 Context
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And 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 shined upon 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 secret of God (Elohim) was upon my tent;
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When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
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When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!
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When I went forth to the gate unto the city, when I prepared my seat in the street,
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The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
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The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
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The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved 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 gave witness unto me:
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless also, that had none to help him.
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing fo...
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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 was I to the lame.
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I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake 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 nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand:
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My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
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My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
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If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the...
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