Douay Rheims Original ↷
Job 29 📜 📕 ↷
Job's Former Blessings
1 JOB also added, taking his parable, and said:📜💬📚
2 Who will grant me, that I may be according to the former months, according to the days in which God kept me?📜💬📚
3 When his lamp shined over my head, & I walked by his light in darkness?📜💬📚
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?📜💬📚
5 When the Omnipotent was with me: and my servants round about me?📜💬📚
6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured the rivers of oil?📜💬📚
7 When I went forth to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?📜💬📚
8 Young men saw me, and hid themselves: and old men rising up stood.📜💬📚
9 The Princes ceased to speak, and did put the finger upon their mouth.📜💬📚
10 Dukes held in their voice, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.📜💬📚
11 The ear hearing counted me blessed, and the eye seeing gave testimony to me:📜💬📚
12 For that I had delivered the poor man crying out, and the pupil, that had no helper.📜💬📚
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.📜💬📚
14 I was clothed with justice: and I revested me with my judgment, as with a garment and crown.📜💬📚
15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.📜💬📚
16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched most diligently.📜💬📚
17 I brake the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.📜💬📚
18 And I said: I will die in my little nest, and as a palmtree will multiply days.📜💬📚
19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.📜💬📚
20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.📜💬📚
21 They that heard me, expected sentence, and attent held their peace at my counsel.📜💬📚
22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech distilled upon them.📜💬📚
23 They expected me as rain, and they opened their mouth as it were to a lateward shower.📜💬📚
24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on the earth.📜💬📚
25 If I would have gone to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king with his army standing about him, yet was I a comforter of them that mourned.📜💬📚
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