Young's Literal Translation
Księga Hioba 29:17

Tytuł oryginalny
JobO PrzekładzieYoung's Literal Translation (1898) by Robert Young who also compiled Young's Analytical Concordance.
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29:1

And Job addeth to lift up his simile, and saith: --
29:2

Who doth make me as [in] months past, As [in] the days of God`s preserving me?
29:3

In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
29:4

As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.
29:5

When yet the Mighty One [is] with me. Round about me -- my young ones,
29:6

When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock [is] with me rivulets of oil.
29:7

When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.
29:8

Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.
29:9

Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.
29:10

The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.
29:11

For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth [to] me.
29:12

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
29:13

The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
29:14

Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
29:15

Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame [am] I.
29:16

A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
29:17

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.
29:18

And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.`
29:19

My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.
29:20

My honour [is] fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.
29:21

To me they have hearkened, Yea, they wait, and are silent for my counsel.
29:22

After my word they change not, And on them doth my speech drop,
29:23

And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
29:24

I laugh unto them -- they give no credence, And the light of my face cause not to fall.
29:25

I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.