Hiob 29

1. ¹And Job continued his parable and said,
2. ²Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
3. ³When his lamp shone over my head, [ergänzt: and] by his light I walked through darkness;
4. ⁴As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
5. ⁵When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
6. ⁶When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
7. ⁷When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
8. ⁸The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [ergänzt: and] stood up;
9. ⁹Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
10. ¹⁰The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
11. ¹¹When the ear heard [ergänzt: me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [ergänzt: me], it gave witness to me;
12. ¹²For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
13. ¹³The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14. ¹⁴I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
15. ¹⁵I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
16. ¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
17. ¹⁷And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18. ¹⁸And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
19. ¹⁹My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
20. ²⁰My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
21. ²¹Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
22. ²²After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
23. ²³And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24. ²⁴[ergänzt: If] I laughed on them, they believed [ergänzt: it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
25. ²⁵I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

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