Verse 24
Job 29:24
King James Version
24
If I laughed on them, they believed
it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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
1
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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Oh that I were as
in months past, as
in the days
when God (Elohim) preserved me;
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When his candle shined upon my head,
and when by his light I walked
through darkness;
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As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God (Elohim)
was
upon my tabernacle;
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When the Almighty
was yet with me,
when my children
were about me;
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When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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When I went out to the gate through 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 arose,
and
stood up.
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9
The princes refrained talking, and laid
their hand on their mouth.
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10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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11
When the ear heard
me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw
me, it gave witness to me:
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Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and
him 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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14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment
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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16
I
was a father to the poor: and the cause
which
I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply
my
days as the sand.
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My root
was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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20
My glory
was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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21
Unto me
men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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22
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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24
If I laughed on them, they believed
it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one
that comforteth the mo...
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