Job Chapter 29

Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men showed him.

English (Douay-Rheims)

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

2 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
3 When his lamp shined over my head, and 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 Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?
6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.
9 The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.
10 The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.
11 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:
12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, 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 clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.
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 out most diligently.
17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my 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, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.
22 To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.
23 They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
24 If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
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.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit:

2 Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos,
secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me?
3 Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum,
et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:
4 sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ,
quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo:
5 quando erat Omnipotens mecum,
et in circuitu meo pueri mei:
6 quando lavabam pedes meos butyro,
et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei:
7 quando procedebam ad portam civitatis,
et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
8 Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur:
et senes assurgentes stabant.
9 Principes cessabant loqui,
et digitum superponebant ori suo.
10 Vocem suam cohibebant duces,
et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
11 Auris audiens beatificabat me,
et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi:
12 eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem,
et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
13 Benedictio perituri super me veniebat,
et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
14 Justitia indutus sum,
et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
15 Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
16 Pater eram pauperum,
et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
17 Conterebam molas iniqui,
et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
18 Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar,
et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
19 Radix mea aperta est secus aquas,
et ros morabitur in messione mea.
20 Gloria mea semper innovabitur,
et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
21 Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam,
et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
22 Verbis meis addere nihil audebant,
et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
23 Expectabant me sicut pluviam,
et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
24 Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant:
et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
25 Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus:
cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu,
eram tamen mœrentium consolator.

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