Job 29

ECB(i) 1 And Iyob lifts to add his proverb and says, 2 O that I were as in ancient moons - as in the days Elohah guarded me; 3 when his lamp halaled on my head; when by his light I walked the darkness; 4 as I was in the days of winter with the private counsel of Elohah on my tent: 5 when Shadday was yet with me; when my lads surrounded me; 6 when I bathed my steps with butter and the rock poured me rivulets of oil; 7 when I went out to the portal through the city; when I prepared my settlement in the broadway! 8 The lads saw me and hid themselves and the aged rose and stood; 9 governors refrained uttering and set their palm on their mouth; 10 the eminent hid their voice and their tongue adhered to their palate. 11 When the ear heard, it called me blithesome; and when the eye saw, it gave me witness; 12 because I rescued them who cried - the humble and the orphan and whoever had no helper. 13 The blessing of him who was ready to destruct came on me; and I caused the heart of the widow to shout. 14 I enrobed justness and it enrobed me; my judgment was as a mantle and a turban; 15 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame; 16 - a father to the needy. I probed contentions that I knew not; 17 I broke the molars of the wicked and cast the prey from his teeth. 18 And I said, I expire in my nest and my days abound as the sand. 19 My root spreads to the waters and the dew stays overnight on my clippings. 20 My honor is new within me and my bow changes in my hand. 21 To me they hearken and wait and hush at my counsel. 22 After my words they reiterated not; and my utterances dropped on them; 23 they awaited me as for the rain; they gaped their mouth as for the after rain. 24 I laughed on them, they trusted not; and the light of my face they felled not. 25 I chose their way, and settled as head; and tabernacled as a sovereign in the troops, as one who sighs over the mourners.