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Job’s Final Defense
Job continued his discourse:
Job continued his discourse:
Job's Former Blessings
And Job continued his parable and said,
And Job continued his parable and said,
“How I long for the months gone by,
for the days when God watched over me,
for the days when God watched over me,
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;
when his lamp shone on my head
and by his light I walked through darkness!
and by his light I walked through darkness!
When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;
Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
when God’s intimate friendship blessed my house,
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
when the Almighty was still with me
and my children were around me,
and my children were around me,
When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
when my path was drenched with cream
and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
“When I went to the gate of the city
and took my seat in the public square,
and took my seat in the public square,
When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
the young men saw me and stepped aside
and the old men rose to their feet;
and the old men rose to their feet;
The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;
the chief men refrained from speaking
and covered their mouths with their hands;
and covered their mouths with their hands;
Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
the voices of the nobles were hushed,
and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
Whoever heard me spoke well of me,
and those who saw me commended me,
and those who saw me commended me,
When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;
because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
The one who was dying blessed me;
I made the widow’s heart sing.
I made the widow’s heart sing.
The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
I put on righteousness as my clothing;
justice was my robe and my turban.
justice was my robe and my turban.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
I was eyes to the blind
and feet to the lame.
and feet to the lame.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
I was a father to the needy;
I took up the case of the stranger.
I took up the case of the stranger.
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
I broke the fangs of the wicked
and snatched the victims from their teeth.
and snatched the victims from their teeth.
And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
“I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
My roots will reach to the water,
and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
My glory will not fade;
the bow will be ever new in my hand.’
the bow will be ever new in my hand.’
My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
“People listened to me expectantly,
waiting in silence for my counsel.
waiting in silence for my counsel.
Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
After I had spoken, they spoke no more;
my words fell gently on their ears.
my words fell gently on their ears.
After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
They waited for me as for showers
and drank in my words as the spring rain.
and drank in my words as the spring rain.
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.