Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
And
Job addeth
to
lift
up
his simile
, and saith:
--
Moreover
Job continued
his parable
, and said,
Who
doth
make
me
as `
in '
months past, As `
in '
the days of
God's
preserving
me ?
Oh
that
I
were
as in months past, as in the days when
God
preserved
me ;
In
His
causing
His lamp
to
shine
on
my head, By His light I walk
`
through '
darkness .
When
his candle
shined
upon
my head, and
when
by his light I walked
through darkness ;
As I have
been
in days of my maturity
, And
the counsel
of God upon my tent.
As I was
in the
days of my youth
, when
the secret
of God was
upon my tabernacle;
When yet
the Mighty
One
`is'
with me .
Round
about me --
my
young
ones,
When the Almighty
was
yet
with me ,
when
my
children
were
about me ;
When washing
my goings
with butter, And the firm
rock `is'
with
me rivulets
of oil .
When I
washed
my steps
with butter, and the rock poured
me out
rivers
of oil ;
When I go
out to the gate by
the city, In
a
broad
place
I prepare
my seat .
When I went
out to the gate through
the city, when
I prepared
my seat in
the
street!
Seen
me have
youths
, and they,
been
hidden,
And the aged have
risen
--
they
stood up.
The
young
men
saw
me, and hid
themselves:
and the aged arose,
and
stood up.
Princes have
kept
in
words
, And a
hand they
place
on their mouth.
The
princes refrained
talking
, and laid
their
hand on their mouth.
The voice
of
leaders
hath
been
hidden
, And their tongue to the palate
hath
cleaved
.
The nobles
held
their
peace
, and their tongue cleaved
to the roof
of
their
mouth
.
For
the ear heard ,
and
declareth
me happy
, And the eye hath
seen
, and
testifieth
`
to '
me .
When
the ear heard me, then
it
blessed
me;
and when
the eye saw
me
, it
gave
witness
to me :
For
I deliver
the afflicted
who
is
crying
, And the fatherless who
hath
no
helper
.
Because
I delivered
the poor
that
cried
, and the fatherless ,
and
him
that
had
none
to
help
him
.
The blessing of the
perishing
cometh
on
me ,
And the heart of
the
widow
I
cause
to sing.
The blessing of him
that
was
ready
to
perish
came
upon
me :
and I
caused
the widow's
heart to sing for
joy
.
Righteousness
I have
put on, and it clotheth
me ,
As a robe and a diadem my
justice
.
I put on righteousness
, and it clothed
me :
my
judgment
was
as a robe and a diadem.
Eyes
I have
been
to the blind, And feet to the lame `am'
I
.
I was
eyes
to the blind, and feet was
I
to the lame.
A father I
`am'
to the needy,
And the cause I have
not known
I search
out.
I
was
a father to the poor:
and the cause which
I knew
not I searched
out.
And I break
the jaw-teeth
of the perverse
, And from
his teeth I
cast
away
prey
.
And I brake
the jaws
of the wicked
, and plucked
the
spoil
out
of
his teeth.
And
I say
, `With
my nest I
expire
, And as
the
sand
I multiply days. '
Then
I said
, I
shall
die
in
my nest, and I shall
multiply my
days as
the
sand
.
My root is
open
unto
the waters, And dew doth
lodge
on
my branch.
My root was
spread
out
by
the waters, and the
dew lay
all
night
upon
my branch.
My honour
`is'
fresh with
me, And my bow in my hand is
renewed
.
My glory
was
fresh in
me, and my bow was
renewed
in my hand.
To
me they
have
hearkened,
Yea
, they
wait
, and are
silent
for
my counsel.
Unto
me men
gave
ear
, and
waited
, and kept
silence
at
my counsel.
After my word
they change
not ,
And on
them
doth
my speech drop,
After my words
they spake
not again;
and my speech dropped
upon
them.
And they wait
as `
for '
rain for
me,
And their
mouth
they have
opened wide `
As '
for the latter rain.
And they waited
for
me
as for the
rain ;
and they opened their
mouth
wide as for the latter rain.
I laugh
unto
them --
they
give
no
credence
, And the light of my face
cause
not to
fall
.
If
I laughed
on
them, they
believed
it
not;
and the light of my countenance
they
cast
not down
.
I choose
their way, and sit
head
, And I
dwell
as a king in a
troop
, When
mourners he
doth
comfort
.
I chose
out
their way, and sat
chief
, and dwelt
as a king in the
army
, as
one
that
comforteth
the
mourners.
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