Job Continues His Discourse
And Job continued to lift up his 1adiscourse and said,Lit proverbNum 23:7; 24:3; Job 13:12; 27:1
2 “Oh that I were as in months gone by,As in the days when God akept me,Jer 31:283 When aHis lamp shone over my head,And bby His light I walked through darkness,Job 18:6Job 11:174 As I was in 1the prime of my days,When the aintimate counsel with God was over my tent,Lit the days of my autumnJob 15:8; Ps 25:14; Prov 3:325 When 1the Almighty was yet with me,And my children were around me,Heb Shaddai6 When my steps were bathed in abutter,And the brock poured out for me streams of oil!Deut 32:14; Job 20:17Deut 32:13; Ps 81:167 “When I went out to athe gate of the city,When I 1took my seat in the square,Lit set upJob 31:218 The young men saw me and hid,And the old men arose and stood.9 “The princes astopped talkingAnd bput their hands on their mouths;Job 29:21Job 21:510 The voice of the nobles was ahidden away,And their btongue clung to their palate.Job 29:22Ps 137:611 “For athe ear heard, and it called me blessed,And the eye saw, and it gave witness of me,Job 4:3, 412 Because I provided escape for athe afflicted who cried for help,And the borphan who had no helper.Job 24:4, 9; 34:28; Ps 72:12; Prov 21:13Job 31:17, 2113 “The blessing of the one aready to perish came upon me,And I made the bwidow’s heart sing for joy.Job 31:19Job 22:914 “I aclothed myself with righteousness, and it clothed me;My justice was like a robe and a turban.Job 27:5, 6; Ps 132:9; Is 59:17; 61:10; Eph 6:1415 “I was aeyes to the blindAnd feet to the lame.Num 10:3116 “I was a father to athe needy,And I searched out the case which I did not know.Job 24:4; Prov 29:717 “I abroke the fangs of the unjustAnd snatched the prey from his teeth.Ps 3:718 “Then I 1said, ‘I will breathe my last 2in my nest,And I shall multiply my days as the sand.Or thoughtLit with19 ‘My aroot is spread out to the waters,And bdew lies all night on my branch.Jer 17:8Hos 14:520 ‘My glory is ever new with me,And my abow is renewed in my hand.’Gen 49:24; Ps 18:34
21 “To me athey listened and waited,And kept silent for my counsel.Job 4:3; 29:922 “After my words they did not aspeak again,And bmy speech dropped on them.Job 29:10Deut 32:223 “They waited for me as for the rain,And opened their mouth as for the 1late rain.Spring24 “I laughed with them as they could not believe it,And the light of my face they did not cast down.25 “I chose a way for them and sat as atheir head,And dwelt as a king among the troops,As one who bcomforted the mourners.Job 1:3; 31:37Job 4:4; 16:5