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| | The Douay Rheims Online Bible (DRV) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
| Job 29:1 | Job also added, taking up his parable, and said: | And Job again took up his parable, and said, |
| Job 29:2 | Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me? | Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me; |
| Job 29:3 | When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness? | When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness; |
| Job 29:4 | As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle? | As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent; |
| Job 29:5 | When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me? | When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me; |
| Job 29:6 | When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil? | When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil! |
| Job 29:7 | When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair? | When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, |
| Job 29:8 | The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood. | The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood; |
| Job 29:9 | The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth. | The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; |
| Job 29:10 | The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat. | The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. |
| Job 29:11 | The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: | For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: |
| Job 29:12 | Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper. | Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. |
| Job 29:13 | The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow. | The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. |
| Job 29:14 | I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem. | I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. |
| Job 29:15 | I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame. | I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. |
| Job 29:16 | I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. | I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. |
| Job 29:17 | I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey. | And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth. |
| Job 29:18 | And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days. | Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: |
| Job 29:19 | My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest. | My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch; |
| Job 29:20 | My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired. | My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand. |
| Job 29:21 | They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel. | Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel. |
| Job 29:22 | To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them. | After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them. |
| Job 29:23 | They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower. | And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain. |
| Job 29:24 | If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth. | I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down. |
| Job 29:25 | If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned. | I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners. |
| | The Douay Rheims Online Bible (DRV) | The American Standard Version Online Bible (ASV) |
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