1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)
Job 29
Job bemoaneth himself of his former prosperity and honour.
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29:1 ¶
Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:
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29:2
Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
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29:3
When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
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29:4
As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
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29:5
When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
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29:6
When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
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29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
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29:8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
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29:9
The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
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29:10
The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
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29:11
The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
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29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.
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29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
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29:14
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
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29:15
I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
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29:16
I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
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29:17
I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
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29:18
And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
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29:19
My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
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29:20
My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.
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29:21
They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
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29:22
To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
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29:23
They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
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29:24
If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
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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.