29:1 Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit :
29:1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
29:2 Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me ?
29:2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
29:3 Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris :
29:3 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
29:4 sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo :
29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
29:5 quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei :
29:5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
29:6 quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei :
29:6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
29:7 quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
29:7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
29:8 Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur : et senes assurgentes stabant.
29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
29:9 Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
29:9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
29:10 Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
29:10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
29:11 Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi :
29:11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
29:12 eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
29:12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.
29:13 Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
29:14 Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
29:14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
29:15 Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
29:15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
29:16 Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
29:16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
29:17 Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
29:17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
29:18 Dicebamque : In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
29:18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
29:19 Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
29:19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
29:20 Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
29:20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
29:21 Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
29:21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
29:22 Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
29:22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
29:23 Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
29:23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
29:24 Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant : et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
29:24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
29:25 Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus : cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.
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.