1 addidit quoque Iob adsumens parabolam suam et dixit
2 quis mihi tribuat ut sim iuxta menses pristinos
secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me
3 quando splendebat lucerna eius super caput meum
et ad lumen eius ambulabam in tenebris
4 sicut fui in diebus adulescentiae meae
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 iuvenes et abscondebantur
et senes adsurgentes stabant
9 principes cessabant loqui et digitum superponebant ori suo
10 vocem suam cohibebant duces
et lingua eorum gutturi suo adherebat
11 auris audiens beatificabat me
et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi
12 quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem
et pupillum cui non esset adiutor
13 benedictio perituri super me veniebat
et cor viduae consolatus sum
14 iustitia indutus sum
et vestivit me sicut vestimento et diademate iudicio meo
15 oculus fui caeco et pes claudo
16 pater eram pauperum
et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam
17 conterebam molas iniqui
et de dentibus illius auferebam praedam
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 si quando 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 maerentium consolator
1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.