1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Job 29

Job bemoaneth himself of his former prosperity and honour.

 29:1 ¶ Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

 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 When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

 29:5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

 29:6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

 29:7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.

 29:9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

 29:10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.

 29:11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

 29:12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

 29:14 I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

 29:15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

 29:16 I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

 29:17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

 29:18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

 29:19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

 29:20 My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

 29:21 They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

 29:22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

 29:23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

 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 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.